Kelvin Nwabueze, a 47-year-old Lagos resident, has signed an undertaking committing to steer clear of Preciousgift Aguamba, a woman he violently assaulted on December 27.
Nwabueze and Aguamba met at the Zone 2 police command in Onikan on Thursday where they narrated how he visited her house in Ikotun on the day of the incident and disagreed over his keeping his luggage there.
The pair have a three-year-old son together but they share no close relationship since the child’s birth. Nwabueze confessed to earlier fabricating a petition against Aguamba at Zone 2 to get her to show up for what he described as “peace talks”, and the police got him to sign the undertaking.
Recounting the experience, Aguamba said the police did not follow up with a charge of assault and battery against him but counselled them both to resolve their differences.
HOW IT STARTED
On December 28, Aguamba visited the Ikotun Police Station to lodge a complaint against Nwabueze. There, she narrated how he punched her face, strangled her and inflicted injuries all over her body.
Injuries on Aguamba’s neck area
The police collected N10,000 from her and promised to call her abuser’s phone number repeatedly to get him to appear before them. They told her the money was for documenting the matter.
FIJ reported the matter a day later. Reacting to this report, the Ikotun police called her to take them to Nwabueze’s house. They visited his house on January 1 but only found his mother and siblings.
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The Lagos Police Command then invited Aguamba to the headquarters in Ikeja. She visited the headquarters on Monday in the company of policemen from Ikotun, but the command instructed the Ikotun police to apprehend the suspect before transferring the matter.
At about 6:27 pm that day, she got a message on WhatsApp instructing her to appear in Zone 2 on Thursday.
Letter of invitation to Aguamba
FIJ called the number on the invitation, and the police officer on the other end of the call said someone had written a petition to their office and they wanted to question her. He refused to disclose who wrote this petition, but FIJ later learnt it was Nwabueze. This officer said he was aware two other police formations were investigating a similar matter involving Aguamba, but they still needed to see her.
WHAT HAPPENED IN ZONE 2
Aguamba said she got to the station in the company of the same policemen from Ikotun, but when the police began questioning her. They said Nwabueze wrote in his petition that she attacked him with a hot electric pressing iron.
She said he was present there and began repeating the things he wrote in the petition but later backtracked and said he only wrote those things to get her there.
“The police then got him to rewrite his statement with the true account of events,” Aguamba told FIJ.
“They said I was lucky as they could have detained me there until the truth came out, so I should accept his apology in good faith and leave things the way they are.
“They also said they would get him to sign an undertaking saying he would never do it again. Afterwards, I asked the Ikotun police if anything could be done. They said they would have done the same thing as they could not detain him for longer than 48 hours even if they arrested him. And, I cannot afford a lawyer to fight it.”
Aguamba accepted the police’s decision and left the station, hoping never to see Nwabueze unless under the conditions for him to see his son.
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