Soldiers Beat Up Lawyer, Shoot At Him In Lagos

According to reports today, a group of soldiers brutalized a motorist for arguing over right of way. The soldiers numbering about four reportedly chased the motorist identified barrister Olajide Sipe, from 23 road Mobile Petrol station and shot at his car twice.

After one of the bullets hit Barrister Sipe’s tyre and he had to stop, the soldiers then went on to drag him out of the car and beat him thoroughly with stones and sticks almost to the point of death.
But for the timely intervention of a retired commodore who stopped his car and restrained the soldiers from inflicting more injuries on the lawyer, he could have lost his life in the attack. After the commodore intervened, Jide was rushed by bystanders to Mercy Gate hospital along 72 Road where is receiving treatment.

Barrister Sipe Narrated his ordeal to a correspondent of Naij.com. He said
“I was coming from where I went to buy water barely ten minutes after talking with my wife on the phone, at 23 Road Mobil Petrol station, those buying fuel had blocked one lane and a soldier had stopped a bus on the other lane in the middle of the road.

“When I realsed that the soldier was blocking the road I said to him, Oga this thing you are doing is causing holdup, why don’t you take the bus out of the road, so that we can move, and then he said to me who are you, what nonsense are you talking, and I said, no Oga I’m not trying to teach you what to do, I’m only telling you that if you do this thing it will be better for us using the road.
“The next thing he said was, You must be a useless man, then when I saw that he was already taking that tone I decided to move my car, then he started running after me, after I took the turning on 23 Road, another soldier, light in complexion came in front of my car, I stopped, then he began kicking my front wheel and smashed my windscreen.

“When I saw he was kicking my car, I moved, then the two Soldiers boarded a bike, then they later became four and began chasing me, as I got to 7th Avenue, I made a U-turn and they rammed their bike into my car, then I drove off, when the soldiers saw me driving off they shot at the car twice, the second bullet hit my tyre. When I heard the sound of the gun I couldn’t believe I was being shot at.