Super Glue In Lover’s Ear

Story by Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu

To punish his girlfriend who had deserted their home for six months after over six-years of turbulent relationship, a young man decided to teach her a lesson.

Benjamin Kumi, a trader, cunningly replaced the content of his partner’s ear drop with super glue and managed to get it to her at her new home.

The unsuspecting victim who has a chronic ear problem also took it, applied it and got deaf in the left ear for several agonising hours.

Fortunately for her, the glue had been removed at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital.

Meanwhile, Kumi has been charged for causing unlawful harm to his partner by the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service at the Western Regional Headquarters in Sekondi and has been arraigned before the Sekondi Magistrate Court.

He pleaded guilty and the court sent him to prison for nine months with hard labur. In addition, Kumi is to pay ¢2 million as compensation to the woman, Vida Kyei.

According to the Unit Commander of DOVVSU, Ms Cecilia Arko, even though they were not married, Kumi and his girlfriend lived together as a couple at Adakope, a suburb of Sekondi.

She said Kumi and the girlfriend, Vida Kyei, always had problems over minor issues and at a point, Vida left their home at Adakope to stay with her uncle at Port-Quarters in Takoradi.

The saga began when Kumi, who who did not take kindly to this decided to punish Vida for leaving him.

According to Ms Arko, after planning his scheme, Kumi went to buy super glue and poured it into one of the empty ear drop containers that Vida had finished using and boldly went to her at Takoradi and handed it over to her.

Vida, apparently unaware of Kumi’s intentions took the drug and told Kumi that she had no grudge against him so he could visit her at home any time he was in Takoradi.

Ms Arko said Vida later applied the ‘drop’ in her left ear and in some few seconds, the drop hardened and completely sealed her ear together with her ear-ring coupled with severe pains.

Ms Arko said the uncle got angry and demanded to know where she bought the drug and, to his surprise she said it was Kumi who sent it to her from their former house.
She said the uncle then made a report to the police and Kumi was arrested.

Kumi upon interrogation, at first denied knowledge but later admitted switching the contents of the super-glue and the ear-drop, pleading that he did not know what came over him.