Landlord and his wife attacks, injured female tenant over 'notice of quit ’ in Lagos

A Lagos state landlord, identified as Samson Ekweozor, and his wife, Anurika Ekweozor have allegedly attacked and defaced a female tenant one Mary Onyian, over her family’s refusal to vacate an apartment in Ikotun-Egbe.

It was gathered that the victim's family received a 'notice of quit' barely a month after they moved in and since no refund was made to them, they decided to stay.

Speaking to THEWATCH NEWS she said, “We don’t know the reason we were asked to move out, the whole drama started during the lockdown and we had nowhere else to go.

Mary revealed that she was out of a job during the national lockdown caused by the deadly coronavirus.

We were battling to feed and survive during the lockdown when the landlord and his wife asked us to vacate the apartment, which we had just rented and moved in, she added.

 



Determined to make us leave the apartment, the landlord disconnected our power supply, plunging our apartment into permanent darkness.

"We resorted to using a generator as if disconnecting our power supply was not enough, the landlord disconnected the water supply to our apartment," It was at that point that my husband asked him to refund part of our rent if he truly wanted us to leave.

One day, I went to take water from our bowl close to the window to prepare food for our children and on my way back, our landlord suddenly attacked me from behind while his wife used a sharp object to slash at my face, neck and other parts of my body.

I spent two weeks at the hospital. In fact, that I didn’t die is nothing short of a miracle.

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