24-year-old Okechukwu Chiagba has lost his manhood over
something as ordinary as a potty. The ugly incident happened when he engaged in
a scuffle with his neighbour, 41-year-old Michael Essien, a Calabar, Cross
River State indigene, over accusation of using a potty without permission.
By the time the dust settled, Chiagba had sustained a gory
tear in his manhood that put him in the hospital for more than one week.
He PUNCH that the incident that led to his
injury began at 6am that day in the apartment building in which he lived with
his wife (what is called face-me-I-face-you) in Shasha, Egbeda Lagos.
Chiagba said, “That night, my wife went out to use the
toilet. We normally use potties. But when she got to where she put her potty,
she could not find it.
“She came back to ask me but I told him I had not seen it.
She went outside to look for it and that was when she saw our neighbour
(Essien) coming out of the toilet with it.
“My wife came back to report to me. I was preparing to go
out and challenge the man for using my wife’s potty when my wife cautioned me
not to go. She said she would prefer to go and meet the man’s wife and talk to
her. I agreed and let the matter go.”
According to him, later that morning, he went to work but
when he came back in the night, he saw the potty at their entrance, even though
they usually kept it out of sight in a corner of the house.
Chiagba said when he asked his wife about it, she said she
did not know who put it there.
He said, “I picked the potty and put it under the staircase
where we usually kept it. When I was returning it, Essien blocked my way and
said I should not put it there again, I asked why and he said because my wife
was accusing him of using the plastic.
“I told him that if my wife really accused him, all he
needed was to deny or ignore her that he really did not use it. I tried to go
past him and put the potty there but he pushed me to the ground. We were about
to fight when neighbours separated us.
“I went inside and sat down. Later, I went to put on a boxer
and sat outside to take fresh air. I was receiving a call when I heard ‘I will
surprise you today. I will show you today.’ I turned around just in time to
catch him as he rushed at me.
“We were fighting when he grabbed my manhood and held on to
it so tightly that I fell down and fainted. I think he did not know that I had
actually fainted because I was told he still held on to it even when I had
passed out. I learnt that it took three men in the compound to force him to let
go.”
It was learnt that after Essien let go, the neighbours
realised how serious Chiagba’s injuries were as he laid unconscious on the
ground.
They quickly revived and rushed him to a hospital where he
was stitched up and hooked on a drip.
Essien who has since been arrested by policemen from the
Egbeda Police Division, Lagos, explained that he did not mean to inflict such
an injury on Chiagba.
The police said Essien has now been charged before an Ebute
Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for assault and battery.
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