A group of hoodlums, yesterday, stabbed a worker with the Lagos State Waste Management Agency, LAWMA, one Oluwaseun Thomas in the eye for allegedly reporting their activities to the police.
Thomas was said to have been beaten up by the hoodlums before they stabbed him in the eye and wasinitially rushed to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, to remove the hoodlums’ knife which was left in his head, however, he is currently on admission at an undisclosed private hospital on the Lagos Island.
The victim who is officially attached to Oja Oba Market on Dosumu Street, had allegedly supplied information, through a community leader in the area, to the police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, that hoodlums kept weapons in the market.
The SARS policemen were said to have stormed the market, and recovered the weapons, including cutlasses, knives and guns, but they were unable to arrest the hoodlums.
On Thursday, January 21, 2016, at about 9pm, Thomas, who was on night duty, was clearing some refuse in the market when the hoodlums attacked him.
Meanwhile, apart from Thomas, some other workers of the agency at the market were also attacked. After stabbing him in the eye through the side of his head, the hoodlums abandoned the LAWMA worker by the roadside with the knife stuck in his eye.
Residents, who alerted the police at the Adeniji Adele division, were said to have also rushed him to LUTH.
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