Convinced that the military officials would beat the man to death if nothing was done, Enikuemehin reportedly walked up to 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 him 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.
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 even enraged and descended on Enikuemehin, during which his eye was plucked out.
The damaged eye was reportedly picked from the ground and the man rushed down to LUTH. The soldiers were however apprehended by residents who handed them over to the police. The story got messier when Prince Ojatunwse Oluwajoba, Enikuemehin's uncle, went back to the police station only to find that the military men had already been released.
While still digesting that development, one of the accused soldiers walked into the station in the company of a senior officer, Captain Okoli to collect his identity card and other personal effects that had been taken from him.
He said the DPO of Adekunle Police Station informed him that the soldier who stabbed his nephew had been handed over to the military authorities. According to Oluwajobaa, doctors at LUTH said his nephew’s left eye has been completely damaged and that the second eye might be affected as well if proper medical care is not given.
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