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Man's inhumanity to man was again manifested on Sunday night, when a jilted man, said to be a KAI official, Segun Adegbose, gave his 23-year-old girlfriend, Miss Kafaya Dauda, an acid bath.
Man's inhumanity to man was again manifested on Sunday night, when a jilted man, said to be a KAI official, Segun Adegbose, gave his 23-year-old girlfriend, Miss Kafaya Dauda, an acid bath.
Speaking with P.M.News at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Kafaya said, 'It all happened between 10 and 11p.m., on Sunday. I came back from the mosque and after I had changed my clothes, I decided to relax.
'I was later woken up by Segun who queried my refusal to pick his calls. I told him that my phone was in silent mode. He screamed and made so much unnecessary noise over the issue before he left.
'I was still resting when I noticed that someone had entered the room again. I discovered that it was Segun. But before I could raise my head, he poured something on my face. I screamed when I felt a burning sensation on my skin and realised that I could not open my eyes again. He fled immediately.'
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He is still on the run. Kafaya added that she and Segun were lovers, and that they started dating in March, this year. She, however, ended the affair when she discovered that Segun's character was not different from that of a tout.
This infuriated Segun, who is from Ikorodu and lives somewhere around Olusosun bus stop at Ojota, while his mother lives in Ikorodu.
Kafaya, a resident of 5, Ali Lane, Off Ogba Road, Lagos, further said: 'At the beginning of our relationship, Segun told me that when the girl he was dating before he met me tried to jilt him, he had threatened her with an acid bath.'
According to the victim's neighbours, Kafaya is a nice girl. Her neighbours have been trooping to the hospital to sympathise with her. She is a fashion designer and owns a shop in Ogba.
Immediately they heard of the incident, a group of women in the area raised about N59,000 to cover part of her medical bill.
Kafaya, who hails from Saaki in Osun state, stays with a woman known as Mummy Rhoda, a midwife and the owner of a trado-medical centre at the same address.
Mummy Rhoda said, 'Kafaya has been living with me since her childhood. Her parents are in Saaki. So, I have been taking care of her. I was not around when the incident happened. I don't know this Segun, though I knew that she was dating somebody.' A concerned neighbour, who craved anonymity, said Segun called Kafaya's present boyfriend on phone this morning (yesterday morning) and threatened that he would be the next victim. The matter has been reported at the Isokoko Police Station, Agege. At the time of filing this report, Segun's whereabouts remained unknown.