A group of hoodlums in Lagos state have attacked an official of the Lagos taskforce with an acid solution that has left the victim confined to the hospital bed in Ikeja.
The victim, Akude Silas after being bathed with acid
Hoodlums in Lagos yesterday attacked men of the state Task Force on Environment and Special Offence Unit.
It was gathered that the hoodlums chased the officers in a commercial Volkswagen bus otherwise called Danfo on Oshodi-Oke and poured acid on a paramilitary official attached to the task force, Mr Akude Silas, according to the News Telegraph.
This was as the task force arrested more than 64 miscreants at Oko Mala, Oshodi. The miscreants, it was learnt, were those terrorising Oshodi and its environs. Silas and other officers were on enforcement operation to dislodge street traders around Oshodi area to ensure free flow of traffic before they were attacked.
The victim was rushed to the Lagos State Emergency Centre, Toll-Gate before he was later transferred to the General Hospital, Ikeja.
Speaking with a correspondent after a visit to the Emergency Ward of the Ikeja General Hospital, the task force Chairman, Superintendent of Police (SP) Olubukola Abe, described the attack as barbaric and affront on his men.
Abe disclosed that while Silas was currently receiving treatment at Emergency Ward at the hospital a Police Sergeant, Robert Ajayi, was also injured by some people believed to be from Niger Republic at Ojo area.
The culprits are yet to be identified and apprehended by security operatives.