A Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) official lost his eye after saving a torture victim from the hands of some unruly soldiers in Lagos.
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.
Unfortunately, this didn’t last long as a relative of the FRSC Officer went back to the police station and discovered that the soldiers had already been released by the police.
While still digesting that development, one of the accused soldiers walked into the station in the company of a senior officer who was identified as Captain Okoli.
Segun’s Uncle, Prince Ojatunwse Oluwajoba, speaking on the incident, said the DPO of Adekunle Police Station informed him when he got there that the soldier who stabbed his nephew had been handed over to the military authorities.
He said that soldier, who had been in civilian clothes when the incident happened, arrived at the police station with Captain Okoli to collect his identity card and other personal effects that had been taken from him at the station.
He added that doctors at LUTH are now saying his nephew’s left eye has been completely damaged and that the second eye might be affected as well if proper medical care is not given.