arrested a nurse, Dorothy Hayford Nkanu, who allegedly poured acid on
her lover, Edmund Educhukwu with acid on suspicion that he was dating
another lady.
Neighbours later rushed Edmund to the University of Calabar Teaching
Hospital, UCTH, where doctors have been battling to save his badly
damaged face and left eye. The right eye was damaged beyond
redemption.
Narrating his ordeal to P.M.NEWS , at the Intensive Care Unit of the
UCTH, the final year student of Education Technology in the Faculty of
Education at the University of Calabar said heand Dorothy have been
lovers for some years and that they spent the night before the day of
the attack together
"We even had passionate sex that night. It was in the morning that
she did this to me without any fight."
On what may have prompted the lady to inflict such damage on his body,
he said that "Dorothyhad once complained that some people had toldher
that I was dating another lady whom I intend to marry and abandon her
after these several years together. But I reassured her thatit was
not true that people were only trying to destroy our relationship. It
did not occur to me that she was still harbouring the grudge," he
said.
He said the morning the incident happened, they woke from bed without
any sign of trouble and he led her on morning devotion. "It was when I
was rounding off the prayers with my eyes still shut that she sneaked
out and brought the paint rubber where she hid the acid and oured it
on me."
He said his girlfriend who is from Agwagwune in Biase area, Cross
River State like himself, attacked him while he was not wearing a
shirt, so that the acid would have maximum impact on his body.
"After pouring the acid on me she said 'if the God you are praying to
supports your plan, I will now see the woman that will accept you with
your eyes blind and face destroyed' and she ranaway".
Doctors at the UCTH confirmed that one of Edmund's eyes had been
completely destroyed while the second one could be salvaged.
"He needs a skin transplant and adequate care for the other eye to be
restored at least for him to see with it and that cannot be done here
but outside this country, perhaps in UK or USA, " oursource said.
DSP John Umoh, the Public Relations Officer for the Cross River Police
Command said the woman has been arrested and is currently in
detention.
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