Posted by Written by Jaafar Jaafar, Kano on
A commercial sex worker in her early 20s was arraigned before a magistrate court in Kano for using a sharp razor to chop her lover's manhood in Gidan Giwa, a red-light area in Sabon Gari, Kano.
A commercial sex worker in her early 20s was arraigned before a magistrate court in Kano for using a sharp razor to chop her lover's manhood in Gidan Giwa, a red-light area in Sabon Gari, Kano.
Barring the intervention of a good surgeon, who stitched and plastered the remaining stump on the victim's groin, the young lover would not have survived to tell the story of how he reached the valley of death.
Explaining the incident which occurred on the 6th day of this month, Balarabe Uba stated that when he entered the lady's room, she started raining abuse and all sorts of invectives on him and subsequently engaged him in a fight.
He explained that she used a sharp razor to cut his genital organ and left him wallowing in a pool of his blood.
It was said that the young man bled profusely and become unconscious before he was taken to a nearby hospital.
Standing before Magistrate Halima Abubakar Bashir Wali in No Man's Land Kano, the accused Amina Bala pleaded not guilty to the charge of attempted murder, under section 95 of the Penal Code. She denied that she used a razor to cut the plaintiff's manhood. She claimed she did not know when it happened.
After a long argument, Wali ordered that she be remanded in prison custody and adjourned the case till tomorrow for further hearing.
But shortly after the court session, our reporter cornered her. According to her, her boyfriend was the one who first beat her mercilessly because he thought she was cheating on him.
'When he went out and came back to see me with another person, he began to beat me,' she said in tears.
She told Sunday Trust that as the brawl ensued, she also retaliated. 'He beat me so much that he nearly killed me. I know neighbours told him that I cheated on him,' she explained.
Amina said she could not recall what exactly happened because she and Uba were under the influence of alcohol.
'Shortly after the fight, I was arrested. I would not know what transpired at the end of the fight because we're all in stupor,' she sobbed.