Four men in Alimosho area of Lagos State are critically ill in a private hospital following an acid bath allegedly by a commercial tricycle operator. The victims, Jamiu Akogun, Wasiu Ismail, Basiru and another yet-to-be-identified man said the suspect (name withheld) attached to the Command unit of the tricycle union in Alagbado-Ijaiye area of Alimosho Local Government Council poured the corrosive liquid on them during a fight.
But the chairman of the local union, Mr. Tajudeen Gbolagade, denied the allegation, saying that sympathisers who witnessed how the four men allegedly beat the suspect almost to a state of coma, might have done it to prevent them from killing him. Checks by Sunday Sun revealed that the problem started at Ipaja area of Alagbado when the suspect took on the four men for driving recklessly and almost hit him with their motorbikes.
Both parties were said to have hurled insults at one another, before the fracas that later involved other members of the tricycle riders’ union. It was gathered that during the free for all, someone appeared with a container containing the deadly liquid, poured it on the four men, and walked away. The faces, neck and back of two of the victims were seriously burnt and they are receiving treatment in a private hospital in Meiran, Ogun State.
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