Miss Juliet Osimen, a 24-year-old
hair stylist, received an unexpected acid bath from her lover of three years,
Austin, after she attempted to quit their relationship.
It was gathered that Juliet met
Austin while working at a fast food centre in the Niger Cat neighborhood of
Ekpan, Delta State, where her father, Pastor Sunday Osimen, farmer and Head at
the Mountain of God’s Grace Ministry in the area, also owns a modest home.
While narrating how the incident
occurred, the disfigured acid victim said, “Austin was very generous in the
relationship and often granted most of the requests I made. As a result, I
hardly hesitated when he started making proposals for marriage and coming close
to my family.
“When we met, he was living with his
uncle at Nnewi Street, offAka Avenue, Effurun.
“As the relationship grew, we rented
a self-contained apartment at satellite Ugolo community, Okpe Council area,
where we shared privacy occasionally, while I still lived with my parents.
“Though, I cherished his uncommon
generosity towards me and my siblings, I started getting worried about the
source of his income, which to me did not connect with the generator repairs
job he told me he does for a living.
“My suspicions were confirmed the
day we went to Obiaruku for the marriage of his friend. There is a particular
bag he does not allow me or anyone else touch at all.
“This fateful day, as he was having
an after wedding drinking spree with friends in the hotel we lodged, I opened
the secret bag in our room.
“I was shocked by two items I found.
An identity card as a Federal Government Amnesty beneficiary and a document
list of guns and other dangerous weapons submitted by his group during the arms
mop up.
“From that moment, my interest in
the affair died and I wanted out immediately. I knew I was living with an
unrepentant criminal because he is easily irritated and always bragging about
how tough he is and how he can deal with anyone and go away with it.”
“That night at Obiaruku, I
confronted him on his criminal identity and why he kept it from me. He said he
was worried I would leave him and he does not want to lose me. He said he could
not do without me…
“As I gradually limited my contact
with him, he introduced a catch phrase whenever the issue of breaking the
relationship came up.
“He would say, ‘You can’t leave me.
If you try it, I will so damage you that no man would want to look at you, so I
will still be the only one to marry you.’
One evening, Monday, (February 25,
2013) preceding the Sunday he threatened me with a knifeat Ugolo, he struck.
“It was very hot that night. At some
minutes to 1am, February 26, I had just my towel tied on me when I slept close
to the window.
“Suddenly, I heard and felt a shower
of liquid from outside through the window. The person aimed and poured it all
over my body as I lay faced up.“Immediately, I started shouting, ‘Igwe (Austin)
had poured acid on me’ repeatedly and ran out as the liquid was burning my
body. I saw him running away.”
Thereafter she was rushed to the
Ekpan General Hospital in Delta state.
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