[ 2011-04-21 ]

Ebenezer Bolo at hospital

Cabbie chops off nephew’s hand
DOMINIC BUAH, alias Kabee, a taxi driver based at
Aiyinasi in the Ellembelle District of the Western
Region, allegedly went berserk last week Tuesday
and completely cut off the left hand of his nephew
with a sharp cutlass.

The victim, Ebenezer Bolo, a 17-year-old
self-employed, is currently on admission at St.
Martin de Porres Hospital at Eikwe.

Though a complaint was lodged with the police at
Aiyinasi after the incident, Kabee was alleged to
have been walking about arrogantly in town for two
days, boasting that he even killed a person in
Nigeria without anything done to him.

Speaking to DAILY GUIDE on his hospital bed, Bolo,
who is Kabee’s elder brother’s son, said on
12th April 2011, he asked his father, Anthony Buah
alias Bolo, for money to buy food that evening,
but his father said he did not have any and left
the house.

He (Bolo) started grumbling that his father wanted
to starve him. Kabee, who was then around, accused
Bolo of being insolent. Without any provocation,
Kabee slapped and kicked the victim, making him
bleed profusely.

Kabee and his (Kabee’s) elder brother called
Nweaku, also a taxi driver, allegedly tied
Bolo’s neck with a rope and pulled it, allegedly
to strangle him, but he put his hands inside the
noose to prevent them from strangulating him.

Bolo said as he was brushing his teeth the next
morning, Kabee complained that he (Bolo) was
staring at him and immediately pounced on him and
delivered some hefty blows, to which he
retaliated.

Kabee allegedly then went into his room and
returned with a sharp cutlass to kill him.

When a certain man called Abizi tried to disarm
him, Kabee used the side of the cutlass to hit
Abizi and shoved him aside. In his attempt to cut
off Bolo’s head, the cutlass landed on Bolo’s
shoulder, injuring him.

Bolo tried to run away but Kabee pursued him and
with one stroke of the cutlass severed his
victim’s left hand.

Bolo used his right hand to pick up the
blood-oozing left hand from the ground and ran
towards the main Aiyinasi market, searching for
his mother as people ran helter-skelter on seeing
Bolo soaked with blood.

A female friend of Bolo’s mother mustered
courage to bandage the severed left hand in a
cloth and rushed Bolo to St. Martin de Porres
Hospital, where he fell unconscious but was
revived later by the medical team.

DAILY GUIDE gathered that some relatives of Bolo
lodged a complaint with the Aiyinasi police on the
day of the incident and they arrested Kabee two
days later.

Source - GNA

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