Two Alsatian dogs and their owner, Okolo
Chukwuma, have been arrested by the police in
Ogun State after a ferocious attack on a nine-
year-old boy in Greenland Estate in Ibafo area of
the state.
The boy, Moyinoluwa Banwo, survived the
February 24, 2015 attack with multiple injuries all
over his body. Chukwuma along with the canines
are currently at the Department of Criminal
Investigations, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
The boy’s father, Mr. Femi Banwo, who lives in
the same estate but three streets away from
Chukwuma, told Saturday PUNCH that his son
had left the house around 5pm after school on
that day and went to his friend’s house on
Michael Shoyinka Avenue in Greenland Estate,
just two houses away from the dog owner’s
house.
“My son was helping his friend with an
assignment at the front of the boy’s house when
Chukwuma opened the gate of his own
compound and let the dogs out.
“I think my son’s friend must have seen the dogs
first and ran away but my son did not. The dogs
promptly set upon him and bit him all over his
body until their owner restrained them.”
Banwo, who said he was at work in Apapa at the
time of the attack, said Chukwuma later took the
boy to a hospital in Ikeja after he was given a
first-aid treatment in a clinic at Ibafo.
He told our correspondent, “He took my boy to
the hospital at Ikeja and said he paid N13,000
but when I went back there, doctors said he only
paid N4,000.
“Imagine him telling me that my son would be
fine because he had given his dogs anti-rabies
injection before. Is that a licence to leave
dangerous dogs on the loose?”
The victim’s mother was away from the house
during the attack but was only informed on the
phone when the dog owner took the boy to the
clinic.
Moyinoluwa has been on anti-rabies medication
since the attack, his father said.
The spokesperson of the Ogun State Police
Command, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, was unavailable
for comment as his phone lines were busy on
Friday.
Source: Punch
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