PLUMBER INFLICTS WOUNDS ON RIVAL (MIRROR, DEC 4, 2010, PAG 35,)

From Joe Okyere, Cape Coast

FOR his extreme jealousy, Kojo Eyi, a 31-year-old plumber, is in the grip of the law for inflicting blade wounds on a man he suspected of having an affair with his ex-wife.
Eyi has been remanded by the Cape Coast Circuit Court One, presided over by Mr Samuel Asare Nyarkoh, to reappear on December 13, 2010 after pleading not guilty when he made his first appearance last Wednesday.
According to Chief Inspector Francis Kingsford Ockom, Eyi has three children with his ex-wife, Ewura Esi, who operates a chop bar at the Anaafo Market in Cape Coast.
Inspector Ockom said Mr Solomon Otoo Arthur, 38, was a Cleaner at the Ghana Commercial Bank, Cape Coast Main Branch and a regular customer of Ewura Esi.
He said on Sunday, November 28, this year, around 7.30 p.m., Arthur who lived at Abease, visited Ewura Esi and the sister, Aba Kakraba, in their house at Coronation, a suburb of Cape Coast.
Inspector Ockom said, whilst Arthur was in the house with Esi and the sister, the accused went there to visit the children.
He said the accused left the house without uttering a word and Mr Arthur also left the house later to his house.
Inspector Ockom said at about 8.30 p.m, whilst Mr Arthur was about to enter the bathroom to take his bath, he heard a knock at another entrance to the house and asked who was knocking.
He said Eyi suddenly entered and attacked Mr Arthur and inflicted multiple wounds on his face, neck, back and the left arm with a blade, accusing him of having an affair with his wife.
He said Arthur managed to escape to a nearby house and informed the inmates about his ordeal.
He said the inmates, who saw blood oozing from the several wounds inflicted on Mr Arthur, arrested Eyi and handed him over to the police.
The police issued Mr Arthur with a medical form to go to the hospital for treatment.
He said investigators, who visited the scene, retrieved two blades believed to have been used by Eyi for the dastardly act.
The Judge, however, urged the investigator to speed up his work for the court to take the necessary action.