A Landlord identified as Alabo has inflicted severe machete cuts on a female tenant, Comfort Nwagadi, and her fiancée, Stanley Nwagadi, at their compound in Ekwulobia Street, Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt.
The incident we gathered happened after the landlord had severally taunted her for dating and housing a man he claims she feeds and takes care of.
Narrating her ordeal from on her hospital bed, Comfort Nwagadi said that on Sunday 15 May 2022, she washed and spread her clothes on a rope in the compound , Alabo who is one of the landlords of the building where she resides removed the clothes and threw them on the ground.
According to her, when she went to pick up the clothes, the landlord started raining abuses on her.
She explained that at that while he was still abusing her, her fiancee came in and heard his utterance against her, and there was exchange of words between both of them.
Comfort disclosed that after the exchange of words, they dressed up and went out but unknown to them that the landlord who is now at large had sharpened a machete and was waiting for their return.
She said the moment she walked inside the compound from where they went, the landlord attacked her with a machete which he used to cut her severally on her body. Her fiancee who heard her screaming and rushed to save her, also got a machete cut twice on his head and hand before the landlord ran away.
On his part, Stanley Nwagadi told our correspondent that he rushed to save his fiancee when he heard her scream but was given machete cuts by the said Alabo.
Stanley, however, called for justice on the matter.
It was reported that Police Officers from Azikiwe Police Division, Iloabouchi Mile 2 Diobu, Port Harcourt have visited the intending couple at the hospital.
