Police quiz man for knocking out housewife’s teeth

Mrs Felix showing her dislodged tooth

Juliana Francis 

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man for knocking out two teeth of a house wife who allegedly refused to allow him have sex with her. The woman, Mrs Felix, explained that for rebuffing the suspect’s, Mr. Chukwudi’s illicit sexual advances on September 27, 2013, the man attacked her. When she further resisted, Mr. Chukwudi gave her a blow on the mouth, knocking off two teeth. Police believe that the complainant and suspect are being economical with the truth over what had truly transpired between them before the subsequent attack on September, 27. Mrs. Felix who said her shop was by synagogue church, further explained that she was in the shop, when she noticed Mr. Chukwudi, beckoning frankly to her.

“I ignored him. The man came down from the road, to where I was sitting to grab me. I enquired from him what the matter was. He started harassing me, saying that he wanted to have sex with me. He said that he would pay me. My resistance made him to grab and assaulted me. He hit me on the face with his hand and instantly one of my teeth fell out. And presently, a second tooth is also on the verge of falling off.”

Mr. Chukwudi has not yet stated his own side of the story. Mrs. Felix explained that she started screaming as a result of the pains Mr. Chukwudi was inflicting on her. According to her, in the melee, her handset, valued at N15, 000 and cash of N28, 000 got missing.

“On September, 28, after the Lagos State monthly sanitation exercise, I went to lodge a complaint at Ikotun Police Station,” recalled Mrs. Felix. “An officer was deployed to invite him, but his co-workers initially denied knowing him. Not until after the manager was taken to the station was my assailant produced. The police gave me form to go to hospital. The spokesman for Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN), Mr. Okechukwu Nwanguma said Mrs. Felix had also brought a complaint against Mr. Chukwudi to the nongovernmental organisation, demanding fair and proper investigation.

According to Nwanguma, NOPRIN wanted the Lagos State Police Command to ensure a prompt, full and fair investigation into the matter and to ensure that Mr. Chukwudi was prosecuted and handed the appropriate legal sanctions for his criminal and abominable predilection. Nwanguma said: “She informed us that she reported this incident at Ikotun Police Station and that when the police came to arrest Chukwudi, his fellow workers, in a bid to shield him, denied knowing any person called Chukwudi. But Chukwudi eventually showed up after the police arrested a staff of the transport company.

“NOPRIN finds it extremely incomprehensible that a normal man could harbour the thought of having sex with another man’s wife, also that such a man could go to the extreme of inflicting violence and bodily harm on his fellow man’s wife just to gratify his illicit and debauched sexual desires.”