official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Segun
Enikuemehin, who dared to ask some soldiers who were
assaulting a civilian to desist from such a dastardly act is
currently at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital
(LUTH) with one of his eyes totally damaged. According to
Sahara Reporters, the incident happened on Sunday August
14th. 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 military men would not take such effrontery lightly as
they descended on him and started beating him as well.
But not even the beating from the soldiers would discourage
Segun as he was able to amidst his own beating, rescue the
already battered man whom he then took to the Adekunle
Police station at Ebute Metta. Eyewitnesses say Segun
afterwards led some police officers back to the venue of the
incident. Upon sighting him in the company of the policemen,
the soldiers, who were by that time already cooling off at a
nearby beer parlor, became even enraged and descended on
him during which they pluckedout his eye and threw it on the
ground. The damaged eye was picked from the ground and
Segun was imemmdiately rushed to the General Hospital.
Rejected upon arrival by that hospital, the blinded man
reportedly asked that he be taken to LUTH.
Meanwhile, the soldiers, upon realizing what they had done,
were said to have taken to their heels but were overtaken by
residents and handed over to the police.
When a relative of the stabbed Federal Road Safety Officer
went back to the police station, he 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, who spoke 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
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