Jilted man bathes ex-lover with acid in Lagos (Photos)

A man has been arrested for allegedly bathing his
former lover with acid after she jilted him. Although
nobody was sure that the person who bathed the
victim, Rosemary Nanaifa, with acid was her former
lover, but the lady said she was sure.
According to Nanaifa, 23, her former lover, Paul
Nwokobia, whom she dated for five years, had
repeatedly threatened her since she dumped him.
She said she never knew he would go to the extent
of bathing her with acid.
Speaking from her hospital bed at the Female
Surgery, Ward B, University of Lagos Teaching
Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, Nanaifa, a
caterer, said the incident happened on June 3,
around 8pm. The matter was reported at Itire Police
Division. She said:
“I was at work one day when a private number
called me around 4pm.
The caller was a lady. She said she wanted me
to bake cake for her. She said she would call
back in the evening.” According to her, the
woman called around 8:30pm and told Nanaifa
to meet her at Surulere. She said she would be
in a red car. She said: “I was wearing a red
blouse too. When I got to the spot, I did not see
any red car and she was not calling back.
Suddenly, I noticed someone drew my hair from
behind and suddenly poured acid on my face
down to my waist.” As she felt the debilitating
pains, she fell to the ground, screaming in pains.
People later rushed her to the hospital. They also
alerted her family
. “When it happened, I couldn’t see very well,
but I’m sure it was a man. The man fled the
area immediately.” Nanaifa left her boyfriend
last September, and since then, he had been
threatening her. She said: “I didn’t know his
plans. I left him because he did not have a
stable job and he wasn’t honest. I decided to
move on with my life.” According to her, her
family had spent over N200,000 on her
treatment. She said that she went to work at
a factory after her secondary school.
The victim’s elder brother, Eric, said:
“There’s no big deal in jilting your lover.
People do it every day. I didn’t expect Paul to
have gone to that extreme. I was the one who
led policemen to his house. He did not
suspect we would trace the incident to him.”
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), DSP, Kenneth Nwos, said the
suspect and three others had been arrested and
taken to the State Criminal Investigations
Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, for further
investigation.