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What would make a man empty a gallon of fuel on his wife in the kitchen without regard for his 18-month-old son by the woman?
That was the
question on the lips of stunned patients and
visitors at the Leverage Hospital, Igbo-Elerin, Okokomaiko, a suburb of
Lagos State, where the doctor and his retinue of nurses are battling to
save the life of a woman whose husband, a police inspector, set ablaze
on Friday after a squabble.
According to Augustina, trouble started on Thursday when
she reported to the husband that a certain lady sent her an irritating
text massage warning her to leave Wasiu alone, claiming that the police
officer was her man.
The victim, who claimed that her husband had the habit of keeping
relationship with other women, said Inspector Jimoh flared up and
started beating her. On Friday morning, he reportedly told her that
since she was stubborn, he was going to deal with her. According to the victim, as he
was pounding her, a neighbor came to her rescue and facilitated her
escape to another neighbour’s kitchen, who was cooking at that time,
only for the husband to rush in and emptied a gallon of fuel upon her by
the fire place. But police officer, said to be serving at the Ifako
Police Station, Bariga, told the doctor that it was his wife that was
bearing the keg of fuel in her hand as she made her escape into the
neighbour’s kitchen. Unfortunately, he explained, the fuel exploded upon
her leaving the whole place on fire.
The victim, Augustina, hails from Anambra State while her
husband, Wasiu Jimoh, is from Kwara State. With burns all over her body,
fluid mixed with human fat dripped ike a fountain from her face down
her chest to her fingertips. Writhing in pains, the medics, Dr Bayo and
the nurses, battled to give Augustina some relief as her peeling skin
glued her to the hospital bed. The doctor said she had suffered
second-degree burns.
The woman has however appealed for assistance from government and non-governmental organizations.
The police officer was arrested on Friday but it was
gathered that he had been granted conditional bail at press time.
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