Cabbie Chops Off Nephew’s Hand Posted on April 21, 2011

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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.

From Sam Mark Essien, Eikwe

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