A provisions trader, Chukuma
Ameh, has been arraigned
before the Senior
Magistrates’ Court, Mararaba
for biting off the left ear of
one Abdulaziz Saidu in a fight
over N200.
The pair were found fighting
on the street by the police
patrol team attached to Sani
Abacha Road, Mararaba B,
led by Inspector Mayibe Tube
and were arrested.
Both of them were treated at
the Maraba Medical center
before they were taken to
court yesterday.
Ameh who spoke with
LEADERSHIP outside the
court, said after the Nigeria-
Ethiopia football march on
Tuesday, he was at his shop
at Abacha Road when
Abdulaziz came into the shop
and demanded to be paid
N200 he claimed to be owed.
He said he was eating at the
time and had told Abudulaziz
that he owed him no money,
following which Abdulaziz
went outside, picked a bottle
and made to stab him with it
but he had blocked it with his
right hand, a move which
almost cost him his right
thumb which was almost
severed by the bottle.
“See my hand, I slept in the
hospital yesterday because
the cut was deep and one of
my veins was cut. After he
injured me on the hand with
the bottle, he hit my head
with the bottle and it was in
a bid to save myself that I
pushed him to the ground
and bit his ear,” Ameh
explained.
In his defense, Abdulaziz
denied that he had
wrongfully attacked Ameh.
“Chukwuma asked me to
change money for him to give
a customer so I gave him
N200. After the match, I
asked him for the money and
he said he didn’t owe me. He
was the one who dealt me a
blow first and we started
fighting. I later went to the
police and made a report and
some policemen followed
me to his shop.
“When we got there, he told
the police to go that we will
settle the matter amicably
and after they left, he broke a
bottle on his head and as we
were fighting, he bit my ear,”
he stated.


Source:- http://www.nigerianeye.com/2013/01/man-bites-of-ear-during-fight-over-n200.html