A tenant identified as Yemi Daramola, has bitten off the lip of her landlord, Paul Ajayi, at Fanibi, Akure, Ondo State, during a fight over unpaid rent.
It was gathered that the suspect and her husband, Ojo, rented a room apartment and had been living in the house for more than three years, but recently had issues with the landlord over months of accumulated rent. .
In an interview, the landlord said: “They owed me 18 months’ rent and I went to meet the husband when he arrived from work at around 8 o’clock at night. .
The husband begged me to exercise patience that he would see me the following morning. I warned them to stop postponing payment because I have been asking them to pay till the rent piled up to eighteen months. .
The 18 months rent they owe me is N28,000 as well as electricity bill which is about N6 ,000. On the following morning, the husband came to me, begging, which I insisted that they have to pay.
Later, I saw out my friends that visited me and as I was coming back, the wife attacked me. She hit me and tried to target my scrotum. As I was trying to bend to save my scrotum, she bit my lips and cut it off. That was when I reported the case at Fanibi Police Station.”