The Lagos State Police Command has
described the condition of Mary Sunday, the 27-year-old lady who was
allegedly assaulted with a
pot of boiling stew and lighted stove, as a
self-inflicted one.
PUNCH Metro had last Thursday
reported that Sunday was allegedly assaulted by her fiancé, Corporal
Isaac Gbanwuan, in August 2012 at their home at Pedro Police Barracks.
She is currently at the Igbobi Orthopaedic Hospital after having spent
five months in another private hospital in Bariga.
Sunday had told PUNCH Metro on
February 14 that Gbanwuam assaulted her over a phone call. In a bid to
escape, she had run into a neighbour’s kitchen where a pot of stew was
boiling on a kerosene stove. Gbanwuam, who was in pursuit, allegedly
seized the kerosene stove with its contents and threw them at Sunday.
But the state Deputy Police Public
Relations Officer, Mr. Damascus Ozoani, told PUNCH Metro that the
allegations in Sunday’s petitions were false.
He said, “The allegation that Gbanwuam
assaulted Sunday is misleading. This case has been investigated by the
Provost Office of the command. The police have taken statements from
Sunday, Gbanwuam and other eye witnesses at the Pedro Police Barracks. I
have copies of the statements by the eye witnesses.
“One of the witnesses, who lives in the
same block with Sunday, Mrs. Ayewunmi Bola, said, ‘I was in my kitchen
and went back into my room to get something from the fridge. When I came
back, I met Sunday in my kitchen and Isaac in the passage. Suddenly I
felt hot water splash on me and I withdrew back into the room. The next I
knew, Mary came out of the kitchen and ran into my room. That was when I
saw that Mary and Isaac were covered in flames’.
“According to this woman, the Corporal was trying to douse the fire that was consuming Sunday.”
Ozoani also produced another statement made by another neighbor, Mrs. Edith Igene, who claimed to have witnessed the incident.
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