The motive behind the acid bath of
22-year-old Chika Egbo by her estranged lover, David Sulaimon, remains
elusive, but one thing is sure, the victim may not remain the same
again.
Chika is a student of the Enugu State College of Education.
Last Tuesday, when our correspondent visited her at the Burns Unit of
the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Egbo has become a
shadow of the beautiful girl she was. The substance Sulaimon allegedly
poured on her had destroyed every visible skin from her chest upwards.
She mumbled to her father, a Taraba State-based businessman, as she could neither see nor speak properly at the time.
When her father, Matthew Egbo, narrated
the incident that led to Chika’s state, the story brought tears to his
eyes as he lamented that his daughter would never be normal again.