[b]. Eighteen-year-old Boluwatife Ajadi had been looking forward
to enjoying the New Year festivity with her family in peace and
happiness, but she spent it in agony on a hospital bed,
hanging on to life.
Boluwatife, who finished secondary school in September 2014,
fell victim of a vicious attack by a scorned suitor, a young
man who had been seeking her hand in a romantic friendship,
around 11pm on December 30, 2014.
But the culprit, 21-year-old Sakiru Buari, insisted that
Boluwatife was his girlfriend.
When our correspondent visited Samas Hospital, a private
health facility in Baruwa area of Lagos, there was no way of
speaking with Boluwatife. She had been unable to speak since
the attack, her family said. The girl had been induced to sleep
by the hospital staff.
Her elder sister, Adeola, who narrated what happened, said
she had feared that her sister might not survive the attack
which left a long and deep gash on her neck.
A picture of the fresh wound showed part of the girl’s neck,
flesh that is almost the size of a palm, hanging loose.
“The man used a razor to cut her neck,” Adeola began. “There
was no doubt that he actually wanted to kill her. It all started
about 11pm when we were hearing a noise outside our house
on Alhaja Wasilat Street, Baruwa. Someone was shouting
‘thief, thief’ and we all rushed outside but I did not realise my
sister was not inside with us.
“When I went outside, I saw someone staggering towards us
holding her neck. She was struggling to call for help. By the
time I realised it was my sister, she collapsed on the ground.”
Saturday PUNCH learnt that soon after the attack, neighbours
who had heard Boluwatife’s initial alert for help, were able to
catch Buari who had attempted to flee at the time.
“When they caught him, the man was even saying that he
regretted that she did not die. All I could do was scream for
help as I went to where my sister collapsed.
“At that time of the night, nobody was willing to help us. No
vehicle stopped for us to take her to the hospital. At a point, I
had to go to the middle of the road pleading for help.

“Eventually, a young man at the scene picked her up from the
ground and carried her towards the nearest hospital with the
help of other eyewitnesses.”
By the time Boluwatife got to the hospital, she had lost so
much blood that her soaked clothes were dripping blood, it
was learnt.
Banging on the door of the hospital with screams, those who
carried Boluwatife were admitted into the compound as the
doctor on duty went to work on the barely conscious girl.
Adeola, said she had never seen the man who attacked her
sister before that day and was sure he was not her sister’s
boyfriend.
“The man must not escape justice,” she said.
Their father, Gabriel, said he was not at home at the time of
the attack but could not imagine what could have pushed the
man to want to kill her daughter.
He said, “I even thought she was dead when I was called to
the scene and saw the amount of blood on the ground.
“The place looked like a slab where an animal had been
slaughtered. We are lucky that residents of our street called
the beast who did this to my daughter.
“He said it to my face that he had no regret for what he did
and was even angry that she survived the attack. At least, we
are happy that he had confessed to the attack and we cannot
wait to see him off to jail.”
The police at the Ipaja Division, Baruwa, have taken Buari into
custody with promises that the suspect would be prosecuted
appropriately since he had confessed to the crime.
The Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Ajewole Adebayo, a Chief
Superintendent of Police, said Buari would be transferred to
the Department of Criminal Investigations, Yaba, Lagos, as
soon as his men had finished their part of the investigations.
When our correspondent and child and woman rights activist,
Esther Ogwu, visited the police division, Buari, who was still
wearing the clothes soiled with bloodstains, had caked blood
on his hands.
“I don’t know what came over me at the time,” he said.
The young man who said he was from Abeokuta, Ogun State,
explained that he dropped out of school in senior secondary
year one.
“She is my girlfriend and I don’t have any reason to kill her.
We did not fight. I just don’t know the spirit that came over
me at the time I brought out a razor and slashed her neck. I
know now that what I did was terrible,” he said, as he looked
away with.
Buari said both his parents were dead and that the only
known relation he had was in Abeokuta.
He said he works as a barber even though he did not have a
shop of his own.
Ogwu, who has taken over the girl’s case, said that the most
important evidence of the case would be the explanation of
the victim herself.
“Unfortunately, she is not in any condition to speak at this
time. But like every case of assault involving women, we
would ensure that the girl gets justice in this case,” she said. [/b]
http://www.punchng.com/feature/super-saturday-crime/i-regret-slashing-my-girlfriends-neck-lagos-barber/

Hmmmmm. New year madness. Poor girl. We won't know the full story till she can speak. But that is gonna leave a mark, physically and emotionally.

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Guys like this should be in frontline contfrontation with boko boys

Don't worry foool, the Judge will also regret sending you to death. Bastard!