Man has scrotum slashed over $1.20

22-year-old Sunday Onyike, a Business Administration student at Yaba College of Technology, Nigeria, had his scrotum slashed off during a fight with two of his neighbours.

Sunday's father Onyike Okpara,65, said that on the evening of March 1st, 2011, Augustine Eleyi, came and grabbed one sweet and ran away.

My daughter pursued him and in the process, N200 fell from his pocket. She picked it up and said it would serve as a payment for all the gala and biscuits he has been snatching from them.

Later on, on a second thought, she  decided to give him back the money as she thought it was not worth it.

Having searched around for him, and not knowing of his whereabouts, she decided to give him the money the next day.

On the evening of that day which was the 2nd of March, 2011, after she got back from work, she took the money to him at the boys quarters, but he said he did not want it anymore.

At that point, an argument ensued between them, during which his younger brother, Emeka Eleyi took the money.

As the argument continued, Sunday who was in the room preparing for the next day's lecture, told his sister to let the matter be, and go to the main room and sleep, while he asked Augustine and Emeka to leave the place because they were disturbing him with their noise.

They argued and Emeka apparently rushed to to grab my Sunday's two hands, while Augustine rushed and fetched a sharp object, and used it to slash his scrotum.

Onyike Okpara  said that for  one month his son was at the hospital in Iwaya, the Eleyi family only contributed N15,000 for the medical bills. He stated, "after the initial N15,000 installment  they brought when Sunday was taken to the hospital, I have not heard from them".

He also alleged that some members of the Eleyi family have threatened him to accept their term of payment, which is to pay N40,000, as their contribution; and withdraw the case from court.  

He stated, "On November 18, 2012 at about 9:30pm, they sent six men, out of which I recognized three, they came asking me to sign a document, I could not properly read through because of my poor sight, at that time of the night.

One of them practically told me that " so many people die in Lagos every day, and their corpses are never discovered; I would want your corpse to be found". What he meant by that, I do not know. I don't feel safe anymore.

First, they tried to take my son away, now they are threatening me to accept a condition I don't think any of them would accept if it were their son that was involved."

Counsel to the defendant, Worer Obuagbaka, said the defendants have been granted bail but are still in police custody because they have not been able to perfect their bail.