A 35-year old man, Arinze Kingsley, has left a married woman, Mrs
Amaka Ohanwe, partially blind after she allegedly refused his sexual
advances. Amaka was seriously injured in her right eye when she was
allegedly beaten up by Kingsley at a beauty salon. She said after
undergoing several operations, the doctors at Apapa General Hospital
confirmed that she cannot see with the eye again.
PMNews reports that following the assault, the police at Area ‘B’
Apapa arrested Kingsley and charged him with assault before Apapa
Magistrate’s Court after which he was remanded in Kirikiri Prisons in
Lagos State. Both Amaka and Kingsley, who is still single, admitted that
they were friends but Amaka said they were just friends not lovers. She
said she stopped relating with Kingsley when she discovered that he was
desperate to have sex with her despite the fact that he knew that she
was married and had two kids. She said after several attempts by him to
sleep with her failed, he became aggressive and when she noticed that,
she started avoiding him.
Amaka said Kingsley eventually traced her to a salon at Pen Crescent,
Apapa, Lagos where she went to have her hair done and attacked her in
front of the beauty shop.
“He waited for me outside the salon. When he saw me, he started
abusing me after I refused his advances. I replied him and he hit my eye
and threw me on the floor. He started hitting his head on my eyes
until I started bleeding,” she told the court.
Amaka said it was their neighbours who came to her rescue and took
her to the hospital, while Kingsley immediately started his motorcycle
and rode off after attacking her. She alleged that after the attack,
Kingsley boasted that nothing would happen to him because he has money
to bail himself out of any difficult situation. Amaka reported the case
to the police but alleged that she was asked to collect N30,000 for her
eye operation in order to settle the matter out of court. Amaka said she
had spent over N200,000 on the surgeries but they were not successful.
She called on the state government to come to her aid and ensure justice
was done in the matter.
Meanwhile, when Kingsley was contacted, he admitted attacking Amaka
but said he wanted to settle the matter out of court but she refused.
When he was arraigned, he pleaded not guilty.The presiding magistrate,
Mrs O.A Adegbite, granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with two
sureties in like sum. He was, however, remanded in prison custody
pending when he will fulfill his bail conditions. The matter was
adjourned till 24 March.
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