Robbers Chopped Off Septuagenarian Wrist

Pa Jacob Ikilo, a security guard at a filling station at Eyaen village wrists was chopped off by suspected armed robbers on the Benin-Auchi Road.

Septuagenarian Pa Jacob is receiving treatment at the Male Orthopaedic Ward of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), where doctors are battling to save his right wrist.

The severed right wrist has being kept alive by a tiny blood vessel would require N380,000 to be fixed back.

The incident was said to have occurred on Monday, February 29 2016 at 3 am, when Pa Jacob was on night duty.

Pa Jacob said the robbers used machete to chop off his wrist when he went to check an unusual noise at the plant house.

He said he heard people running towards him. As he attempted to run, the robbers attacked him.

“When I was coming from the generator house, they surrounded me. They just cut off this my hand (left hand). As I shout, they said shut up and cut the other hand. I fell down and started asking them to leave me that I was dying.”