Landlady's children cut off tenant's scrotum

A 35-year-old man, Yinka Offehin, has had his scrotum cut off by his landlady’s children who allegedly attacked him in the middle of the night.

| credits: PUNCH, Samson Folarin

PUNCH reports that he is presently battling with his life in a private hospital in Lagos.
Identifying the attackers as Solomon and Damilola, children of their landlady, Offehin’s wife who was with him at the time of the incident, said “On Thursday morning, around 3am, while we were sleeping, we heard loud bangs on our door. We initially thought they were armed robbers because the house beside ours had recently been robbed.

“When they entered, we saw they were children of our landlady. They began destroying our electronics and other property.

“There were two of them. One held a knife in his hand. They took N8000. They descended on my husband and he also fought back. In that confusion, my husband shouted and we saw that one of the attackers had cut Yinka’s scrotum. I can’t say what they used to cut off my husband’s scrotum.”
She said her husband managed to hold on to one of the assailants till dawn while the other fled.
According to her, her husband could not be admitted at a general hospital because of the ongoing doctors’ strike, but was eventually taken to a private hospital in the area.

According to the report, the victim’s problem with the landlady started when “he had a misunderstanding with his landlady and was asked to vacate his apartment”.

Speaking on his hospital bed, he said: “I was asked to leave the house immediately, but after the intervention of the traditional ruler of the community, I was asked to leave by the end of August. But that decision did not go down well with the children of my landlady and they continued to make trouble with me”.

Confirming the incident as PUNCH put it, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, said: “It was around 3am, while the victim was sleeping in his room,that one Solomon Olowogbemi and Damilola Olayeye, the children of his landlady, came in and started fighting with him.
“In the process, they inflicted injury on him with an unknown object. The skin of his scrotum was partly cut off, thereby exposing one of his testicles. The two suspects have been arrested and detained and the victim taken to a hospital.”

Source: PUNCH