MAN POURS ACID ON FCE FINAL YR STUDENT FOR REFUSING TO MARRY HIM

Life may no longer be the same for Ladi Ishaku, a final year student of the Federal College of Education(FCE) Yola, in Adamawa state, as a result of acid attack which severely damaged her body.

The 27 year old Lady who is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Yola, was attacked with liquid substance suspected to be acid at their compound at about 2:30am on Tuesday.

Ladi who hails from Shiure, a Dumne community in Song Local Government Area, resides in their family compound at Lainde Badirisa in Girei LGA where the tragedy struck.

As a result of the attack,the victim had her entire body completely disfigured or damaged.

The incident was said to have occurred at night when she was deeply asleep.

The victim who managed to speak to NEWS PLATFORM on her hospital bed, accused her former boy friend identified as Kama Hammajoda for attacking her with the acid because she refused to marry him.

She narrated that she was together with her niece in the bed room on that fateful night, but because of heat, she decided to sleep outside unknown to her that somebody was targeting her life.

She explained that at first she thought it was petrol that was poured on her, but soon as she started feeling some piercing pain, it down on her that it was acid that was eating her face, neck, shoulder, breast  and body as it burned through her flesh, describing it as a horrific experience.

Ladi whose father is late, disclosed that similar incident happened at their family compound on 24th January, 2022 when unidentified person sneaked into their house at night and littered the floor, the door with petrol.

She said the suspect succeeded in putting the house on  fire, but she managed to escaped through the window with her mother, Mrs. Margreth Ishaku who later died from the severity of the burnt she sustained during the fire incident.

She told NEWS PLATFORM that after the ugly incident, another yet to be identified person came into the  house again at night and poured pesticides in their drinking water in side containers.

According to her, she only discovered it when she fetched the water to drink, but could not be able to do so because it was emitting a strong and offensive smell of pesticides, and that the colour of the water entirely changed.

She lamented that she had never known peace since June, 2021 when she jettisoned the idea of marriage with Kama Hammajoda, an auto mechanic resident in Song town because she discovered he was lier.

Ladi Ishaku, informed NEWS PLATFORM that when she told her former boy friend that she will not marry him, he threatened her saying if "I don’t marry him, everyone will lose". 

Hammajoda, who is currently in police custody at the Criminal Investigation Department in connection with the incident, has since  denied the allegation.

But the police command through its spokesman, DSP said that the accused is still under investigation, explaining that the investigation will reveal whether he is the one perpetrating the act or not.