Soldiers Pluck Eyes of FRSC official in Lagos (Graphic)

According to Sahara Reporters, some Nigerian soldiers allegedly plucked out the eye of a Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC official Segun Enikuemehin who dared to intervene when the military officers were assaulting a civilian.

His intervention angered the military men and this resulted in an attack where one of the officers plucked out his eyes.

Here’s what Sahara Reporters is reporting:

“The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon when Mr. Enikuemehin came upon the military men beating a harmless civilian.  Convinced that the military officials would beat the man to death if nothing was done, he reportedly walked up the angry soldiers and pleaded that they let the man go or hand him over to the police if he had done something illegal.

The military men would not take such effrontery lightly as they descended on the Good Samaritan and started beating him as well. 

But not even the beating from the soldiers would discourage him, and he managed amidst his own beating to rescue the already battered man, whom he then took to the Adekunle Police station at Ebute Metta.

Our sources say that thereafter, Mr. Enikuemehin led the police 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 enraged and descended on Mr. Enikuemehin, during which the eye was plucked out.”

Newsmen gathered that the victim’s eyes was picked up from the ground and the man rushed to the General Hospital. But he was rejected and finally moved to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

Meanwhile, the soldiers involved were ambushed by residents who bundled them off to the police. But a relative of Enikuemehin returned to the station to find that the soldiers have been released.

The relative also claimed he spotted a senior officer of the Nigerian Army, Captain Okoli, at the police station.

Enikuemehin’s Uncle, Prince Ojatunwse Oluwajoba, said the DPO of Adekunle Police Station revealed that the soldiers were handed over to the military for appropriate actions. The DPO also added that the captain had come with one of the soldiers, who had been on plainclothes, to get this ID card and personal effects.