How 'Evil' caretalker unleashed dogs on kindergarten pupil

                                        
When Mrs. Helen Ibraham left her children in their three bedroom apartment on Thursday, 25th September, 2014, little did she knew that danger was lurking in the corner. If she had any premonition that the giant dogs kept in the compound will be let loose to feed on his children, perhaps, she would have locked up her three lovely kids in the apartment before going to the nearby store where she had gone to buy some biscuit for the trio.
Perhaps, she could alternatively had given up going on the errand and stay home with them and make do with other food items she had at home.

But as faith will have it, no sooner had she left the house than the children came downstairs to play. According to their father, Abraham Odia, the three children aged between 4 and 12 years, the children routinely come down to play with other children in the evenings  when there was no light.

Thus, when they came down that evening to play, it was nothing they had not done before. Nevertheless, on this particular occasion, as  they came down to ride their bicycle, they were accosted by three giant dogs kept by the landlord’s brother, one Stanley Jegede said  to be the care taker of house 35, Adegboyega Street, Akesan, Igando where the victims parent reside.

Stanly allegedly let the dogs loose on the three children as they played.

One of the children, four year- old Omoniho Isaac Abraham narrowly escaped death but he was badly battered by the dogs.

Omoniho is currently receiving treatment at the intensive care section of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital LASUTH, Ikeja, Lagos.

The two elder brothers to the victim ages between 7 and 12 years were also injured as they jumped from upstairs to evade the attacking dogs.

Daily Independent investigation revealed that Jegede and his two dogs had been arrested and detained at Igando Police Station.

Narrating the incident to Daily Independent at the LASUTH premises on Monday, Abraham, said that his wife went to buy something for the children, and that shortly after she left, the children came down stairs with their bicycle to play as he live upstairs.

But unknown to them, the giant dogs belonging to the Landlord’s brother were on loose.

“Immediately they came down, two of the dogs chased them. The third dog was chained. They ran back up stairs, but the dog chased after them. Three of them ran up, but the dogs still attacked them forcing the other two who were 12 and 7 years old to jump down leaving their younger one who could not jump. They sustained fracture injury on the legs. The dogs pounced on the boy, tore his skull and battered his face”.

According to him, sympathizers who were helpless had to call in the police.

He said that even with that no one could go in for fear of attack by the dogs, until his wife rushed back after she received a distress call.

“No no body could go in including the police, she had to summon courage and defied the dogs’ barking and threat to go in and saw her son in the pool of his own blood, carried him and rushed out of the house. She was then accompanied by the police to Igando general hospital from where they were referred to LASUTH. He and his two brothers were admitted at the emergency word of LASUTH and later moved to the Pathology burns and surgical ward.

Abraham said he will wait for his children to recover before deciding on his next line of action.

“You can see now, I dont go anywhere again, I sleep in the hospital here. The child cannot do without seeing me and at every point in time my attention is needed by the hospital authority for one thing or the other”, the Edo State born automobile engineer lamented.

According to him, he parked into the house about 3years and 4months as a yearly tenant paying N200,000 rent per annum.

He added that the man had kept only one giant dog which has known everybody in the compound but suddenly about three weeks ago, he went ahead and brought two more giant dogs.

He said the dogs have been harassing everybody in the compound. “Few days before this incident, a lady tenant was coming out from her flat downstairs but the dogs chased her back. She had to run upstairs and closed the doors behind the dogs. Just three days before the incident, my wife advised the man to buy a padlock and lock the dogs inside their cage so that they would not injure somebody but he dismissed the advice saying there was no problem.

“When the dogs were feeding on my son, people were afraid to go near until a neighbour, medical doctor who is a lecturer at LASU alerted the police. Seven police men responded but like other sympathizers, they could not go in to rescue the child for fear of dog attack,” he narrated.

The attack has left the victims who just completed his nursery education and waiting to continue his education at Focaland Montessori Private School when schools resume in pain.

The mother of the kids narrated how she was alerted. “I was called on phone where I went to buy some things for the children that my children were in danger; I rushed down, saw people gathered. I asked what was happening; they said the dogs were inside with my baby that they have called the police. We were waiting for the police, people even prevented me from going inside as somebody who was even living in another house close to ours chained out gate and did not allow sympathizers in claiming the wild dogs will attack them.

At a stage, one of the sympathizers said look at one of the dogs coming out with blood in its mouth. At that point, I had no choice than to force my way inside the building. Two of the dogs charged at me, I shouted at them, one ran away, but one was following me. I ignored it and went straight to the dining area, saw my child lying in the pool of blood, I picked him, he was crying mummy give me water. I took him outside even as the dogs were still barking at me.”

Further investigation revealed that as all these were happening, the Landlord’s brother was nowhere to be found. Further investigation revealed that when the police called him on his mobile phone, he told them he was away to his family house in Ajegunle, Apapa.

He was then ordered to report to the Igando Police Station, when he arrived, he was told to go and bring his dogs where he was detained along with the dogs.