Doctors at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, in Lagos State are currently battling to save Charity Okoye’s life. An acid bath victim, Charity was reportedly bathed with the dangerous substance by the man she had been married to for four years and with whom she has a kid.

According to sources close to the estranged couple, sometime in 2008, Charity’s husband, Gabriel Okoye, had met the family of his then fiancée, and told them of his intentions to have their daughter’s hand in marriage. To show his seriousness, Okoye hurriedly arranged the traditional marriage with Charity. During the traditional solemnization of their marriage, he promised to take good care Charity, as well as love and protect her.

But Okoye, a native of Enugu State, who was unemployed at the time he organised the traditional marriage with Charity, promised his in-laws that in no time he would come to complete the marriage ceremonies with a church ceremony and all the other marriage customs of Charity’s village in Enugu State. Okoye had hoped that things would pick up for him with time.

But that was not to be after all. After the traditional marriage, Okoye pleaded with his in-laws to allow Charity join him in Lagos with assurances that he would come quickly for the church wedding and other marriage rites.

The understanding in-laws granted Okoye’s request and Charity soon joined her husband in Lagos. Barely a year after the two started living together, Charity conceived and bore a child for Okoye.

Though Charity’s parents were happy for the fruit of the womb with which their daughter was blessed, they did not cease to remind Okoye of the need for him to come conclude the marriage rites. It is reported that this topic soon become a sore point between Okoye and his wife. Sometime in 2011, Okoye started accusing his wife of having extra marital affairs with another man in the neighbourhood, an accusation the woman severally denied. But Okoye remained unmoved by his wife’s denials of the charge.

Many times, Okoye would severely beat his wife, even as she continued to claim innocence of the charge. Charity soon started reporting her husband’s attitude to her family, friends and church members. She claimed that she was tired of the relationship and was ready to go back to her village. Charity confronted her husband with her plans to quit the marriage.

When Okoye would not end his beating of the woman, Charity reportedly moved her luggage out of Okoye’s house and took her kid to her parents in the village without her husband’s knowledge. But contrary to her earlier plans, Charity did not stay in the village. She returned to Lagos and got for herself a room at Governor’s Road in Ikotun area of the state.

Not long after Charity moved to Ikotun, information reached Okoye that his ‘run-away’ wife was found at Ikotun. Okoye traced Charity to her new apartment and pleaded with her to return to his house. But Charity refused to hearken to Okoye’s pleas.

When it became obvious that Charity was not going to come back to his life, Okoye reportedly went to her house recently as if he came for reconciliation. He allegedly poured on her body a substance believed to be raw acid. Charity’s face and parts of her body were severely burnt in the process. Realising what he had done, Okoye took to his heels. Neighbours rallied around Charity and took her to LASUTH for treatment.

The matter was reported at the Ikotun Divisional Police Station where a manhunt was launched for Okoye immediately. He was later arrested and detained at the station. One of Charity’s neighbours, identified simply as Stella, told Saturday Mirror that no one in the compound ever suspected that Okoye would do what he did.

She said, “We all know this man as Sister Charity’s husband and we also know that they both had a misunderstanding which was why she came to live in our compound.

The man had come to see her many times, so no one would think that he would come to pour acid on his wife. But the cry of Sister Charity drew our attention and before we could get to the room, the man had jumped out of the window and run away.”

A female police Constable at Ikotun Police Station, who asked not to be named in this story, confirmed that the accused has been apprehended and is cooling his heels at the station. The Divisional Police Officer could not be reached for his comments on the case, as his phone lines were busy until press time.
http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/saturday-mirror/living/man-bathes-estranged-wife-with-acid/

Good gracious God.

Jesus...!!!! If this story is true, then i think the best punishment for that idiot man should be death by hanging.

ok..., it's igbo. Then expect to see this on the front page this morning...lolz...

This is a nightmare! Dear God!

and people wonder why some women leave abusive relationships - oya let the people who blame the woman start.

I blame d woman PARTLY for moving into a mans house and even giving birth when he has not fully paid ur bride price,it shows d woman lacks self respect,self control n self esteem,even up to d point of putting up with a beast when he is assaulting u,i blame d parents n family if d man n woman partly for allowing a lady who is not fully officially n traditionally married to d man to move in to his house,it shows how morally bankrupt dey are and of course i blame d mother of d man for bringin up a wayward and violent son,shows how good her parenting skills are by his character,i blame d man for gettin married when he cannot control his anger n lets it escalates to rage,like my pastor will say if u dont deal with dat little demon inside u,d demon wil grow n bring u down,nt bfor it disgraces u anyway.finally majority of d blame goes to d woman for not lookin bfor leaping,for getin entangled with a beast,for ignorin d danger signals bfor she got to dis stage,for not watching critically with an eagles eyes,d man she wants to entrust her life with instead was thinking with d hole in between her legs,by not praying enough n hearing from God,because god speaks,by getting carried away by fleeting emtions and hormones instead of discretion,common sense and prayers.tufiiiaaaa

Can we scream for ALUU here?

There are evil and disgusting people everywhere.
Same way a woman can bath a man with acid, http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/news/top-stories/197235-jealous-girlfriend-pours-acid-on-boyfriend-s-private-area-graphic-photo.html

Abuse transcends beyond gender.
Men get abused too, especially verbally, even physically too.

IGBO man again?
BAMP=BIAFRA ANGER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM!!!!!!!

Are you people blind? Those are different women.