Police arrest man for pouring acid on fiancée

By Ifeanyi Okolie

LAGOS — A middle-aged man David Suleiman has been arrested by the police in Lagos State for allegedly pouring acid on his fiancée, Chika Egbo and a yet to be identified Okada rider at Ikotun area of Lagos State.

Suleiman who is currently being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti,Yaba, Lagos, was said to have attacked his girl friend, a 300 level student at Enugu State College of Education,  with  acid for  refusing him access to their only child.

Police sources at the state SCID, intimated    Vanguard that trouble began for the couple   when Egbo became pregnant  for Suleiman, and he abandoned her claiming  that he travelled  out of the country, and leaving   her with the burden of fending for herself and the baby.

But few months after  giving birth, he came back requesting to see the baby and he was refused.
A source, who craved anonymity, said he tricked the  25-year-old students who resides in Enugu State to Lagos State  and he took  her to an hidden spot in Ikotun  where  he poured the  acid  on her.

“An Okada rider who witnessed as the incident unfold went after Suleiman, but while he chased him, Suleiman emptied the can of acid on the Okada rider, who  held him strongly waiting for the help.

Other Okada riders who drove by saw what was happening and the came to his rescue and they took Suleiman to Ikotun police station while the Okada rider and Egbo were rushed to a hospital.”

Meanwhile,  Egbo,  who is laying critically ill at  the emergency unit of the Lagos State Teaching Hospital, LASUTH,  had her face, chest and some other parts of body destroyed by the acid bath.