A week before 23-year-old
Babangida was to travel to Zaria, where he was seeking admission at the Ahmadu
Bello University (ABU), a girl simply identified as Abiodun cut off his tongue.
Narrating her son's ordeal, Babangida’s mother, Hajiya Hassana Ali, said the
suspect who is a relative of their neighbour’s wife, used to send Babangida on
errands.
They started going to places
together. When Hajiya Hassana noticed how Abiodun sometimes insulted him, she
advised her son to stay away from her. And he did. After a certain period, they
started getting close again but when Babangida noticed his mother’s
displeasure, he kept his distance from Abiodun, again.
One night when Babangida went out
to urinate, Abiodun pounced on him, choked him and cut off his tongue.
Abiodun’s brother-in-law who heard the commotion when he also came out to
relieve himself inquired whom she was with in the toilet, and she claimed she was
alone. When he noticed blood from beneath the door, he broke down the toilet
door. Upon seeing Babangida on the floor in a pool of blood, he went to his
mother’s house and informed her.
The girl was almost lynched but
Hajiya Hassana intervened and ensured she was taken to the police station.
The victim was rejected in
several hospitals because his tongue was cut off from its root. Eventually, he
was admitted at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.
According to the doctors, there
is hope that the tongue would grow a little since the patient was still young.
This would enable him communicate to some extent.
Hajiya Hassana however alleged
that there was a plot at the police station to release Abiodun on bail and that
the police had already been paid N30, 000 by the girl’s family and were waiting
for a balance of N20, 000.
Yahaya Suleiman, the victim’s
elder brother, also accused the police of changing Babangida’s statement. He
explained that where the victim wrote that he went to pee and wrote ‘fiss’
instead of piss, the police changed it to ‘kiss’.
At the court, the judge, upon
seeing Babangida’s condition, ruled that Biodun be remanded in prison until her
next appearance in court.
Suleiman said that before the
incident, Biodun had been heard saying she would soon be driving a big car and
would rent a nice house.
Babangida’s mother also said
there was the possibility the girl wanted to use her son’s tongue for rituals.
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