Police in Ogun State have detained two security guards for shooting a man in the right eye.
Sango/Ota, in the State’s Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, is where the incident took place on Saturday.
Ramon Rasaq, the victim, lost his sight after a traditional healer later extracted seven pellets from his eye.
Omolola Odutola, a police spokesperson in Ogun, referred to the incident as “attempted murder.”
In Sango, Odutola claimed that Abiodun Fatai had informed the police that his younger brother had gotten into a physical altercation with security because he had “opened the gate himself because the two security men, Michael Adelayo and Ganiyu Saka, were not on guard at their security post at the time he got to the gate.
Rasaq’s movement into the street is believed to have infuriated the security personnel.
In a statement on Tuesday, Odutola stated that after a fight broke out, one of the security guards, Ganiyu Saka, shot Ramon Rasaq in the eyes.
The appropriate medical documentation was provided by CSP Saleh Dahiru, the Divisional Police Officer of Sango Ota, in order for Ramon to be taken to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).
He received prompt medical care to stabilise his condition at the hospital. The doctor on duty guaranteed that Ramon is now responding favourably to treatment, despite the tragic loss of his right eye, the statement read.
Abiodun Alamutu, the police commissioner, has ordered the suspects to be transferred to State CID for additional investigation and potential prosecution.
