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MAN ARRESTED FOR BEATING A WIDOW TILL HER TEETH FELL OFF

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A middle age man, Monday Ekpo, is in
police custody for allegedly assaulting his neighbour and removing her front
teeth.
The suspect was arrested at the weekend following complaint
by one Ebere Ogbonna that Ekpo beat her following her refusal to date him
Ogbonna, a widow and a mother of nine, told police
officers that Ekpo had threatened to kill her following her refusal to date
him. “I lost my husband some years back and I have been struggling to fend
for my nine boys,” she said.


“I had twins three times, and since their
father died I have catered for them. Sometime last year, Monday asked me to
date him but I refused. For more than three occasions, he attempted to rape me
in my one room apartment. We are neighbors. He was bent on sleeping with me but
I told him I was not interested; this angered him and he told me he will make
my life a living hell.”
The victim said her initial efforts to involve
officers of the Iponri Police Station proved abortive as Ekpo is said to be a
leader of a youth gang in the area.

“On April 5th, I attended a friend’s child
naming ceremony, Monday was there and he attacked me saying that he was the
chairman and I should leave,” she said. “He pushed and shoved me out
of the room, and as I resisted him, he slapped me on the face. I went to report
him to the elders in the community and as they called him to warn him from
assaulting me, Monday descended on me and beat me to a stupor. Sympathisers
took me to the hospital where I later woke up and found out that Monday had
removed my three teeth.”
Agbodimu Musbau, the Community Development
Association Chairman of the area, said residents of the community were appalled
by the incident.

“Ebere is a widow and also a member of the
vigilante group in the area,” he said. “When the matter was reported,
we took it up and arrested Monday and handed him over to the police at the
Iponri Police Station, but we were shocked when Monday was released the same day
as his gang went to the police station to threaten the officers to release him
or face their wrath.
It was even sad when Monday started bragging that
no police man in the area can arrest him, so that was why we brought the matter
to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police so that we can get justice and we are
happy that the commissioner, Umar Manko, acted prompted and Monday and the IPO
have been detained over the assault of a helpless widow.”

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