A 300 level student at Enugu state College of Education, Chika Egbo and a yet to be identified Okada rider were attacked with acid at Ikotun area of Lagos State by a middle aged man, David Suleiman who claimed to be Egbo's fiancée.
Suleiman who is currently being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos, was said to have attacked his girlfriend with acid for refusing him access to their only child.
According to a Police sources, the couple's trouble started when Egbo became pregnant for Suleiman, who abandoned her with the burden of fending for herself and the baby, claiming to have travelled out of the country.
He suddenly appeared few months after Egbo put to bed requesting to see the baby, but he was refused.
Another source explained that he tricked Egbo who resides in Enugu State to visit him in Lagos where he took her to a hidden spot in Ikotun and poured her acid.
An Okada rider who witnessed the incident the source said, went after Suleiman but received a bath of the acid after Suleiman emptied the can on the Okada rider, who held him strongly waiting for the help.
"Other Okada riders who drove by saw what was happening and came to his rescue and they took Suleiman to Ikotun police station while the Okada rider and Egbo were rushed to a hospital," the source said.
Egbo is in a critical condition at the emergency unit of the Lagos State Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, with her face, chest and some other parts of her body destroyed by the acid bath.
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