Soldiers in Lagos allegedly plucked out the eyes of a Federal
Road Safety Corps (FRSC) official for saving a torture victim from their hands.
The official, Segun Enikuemehin, had gotten in-between some soldiers
who were assaulting a civilian and asked them to stop what they were doing.
Segun saw some military officers beating a harmless
civilian. Worried that the officers could kill the man with the beating they
were giving him, he approached the soldiers and pleaded that they stop beating
the man and take him to the nearest police station if he had done something
illegal.
The Soldiers in a fit of rage then descended on the poor
FRSC official and beat him too. Despite this, Segun heroically saved the man
they were beating and took him to the Adekunle Police station at Ebute Metta.
He then returned with some Policemen to the scene of the
incident, when they saw him in the company of the policemen, the soldiers, who
were by that time already at a nearby beer parlor, became angrier still and
descended on him during which plucked out his eye and threw it on the
ground.
Segun’s damaged eye was picked from the ground and after
being initially rejected by the General Hospital, Segun was taken to LUTH where
he currently is.
The soldiers tried to flee but were overtaken and arrested.
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