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Man sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for pouring acid on his ex-girlfriend and her new lover.
Man sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for pouring acid on his ex-girlfriend and her new lover. An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday, April 26, sentenced a 32-year-old carpenter, Onyekachi Agu, to seven years imprisonment for pouring acid on his ex-girlfriend, Aishat Adefarati, and her new lover, Monsuru Ahmed. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oyindamola Ogala held that prosecution proved the one-count charge of grievous harm against Agu. Mrs. Ogala said that Agu’s retraction of his confessional statement was an attempt to lie and escape punishment. According to her, the convict failed to bring to court, his brother, who he claimed to have been with on the day of the incident. "The defendant tried to mislead the court by claiming to have been with his brother on the said day but he failed to corroborate his evidence by giving the date and day he visited him," the judge said. “His ‘brother’ who he tried to use as an alibi, was nowhere to be found to give evi