PDP, APC thugs shoot five-year-old

A five-year-old boy was shot and several others wounded on Wednesday night at the Isale-Eko area of Lagos State as opposing political thugs renewed their clash.

According to an eye witness, the little boy was shot on the chest, while going on errand around his home.

An eye witness said: “The boy was just going to buy food across the road that night, when some of these political thugs, from nowhere, entered the streets and started shooting. People scampered for safety. The boy was hit by one of the flying bullets right where he was waiting at the food vendor’s shop.”

A resident, who refused to disclose his name for security reason, explained that the thugs invaded Adeniji Adele Street, around 10pm, shooting sporadically and dispossessing many residents of their valuables.

The food vendor, where the five-year-old was shot, would not give her name.

She however said: “I was outside, attending to a customer when the thugs entered the street. They were in tricycles. They started shooting. They even poured all my food away. I ran too. It was after a bit of calm had returned, that I noticed that the little boy who wanted to buy food had been shot!”

She said that many of those who sustained injuries were rushed to the Lagos Island General Hospital. She disclosed that the little boy was also in the intensive unit of the hospital, battling to stay alive.

One of the victims, who doesn’t want his name mentioned, said: “I was standing by the road side, waiting to board a commercial bus to Adekunle, in Yaba, when I was suddenly hit by a stray bullet. I sell clothes in Balogun market; I only came to Adeniji Adele area to see my mother.”

A resident, Khadijat said people in the area now sleep with their two eyes wide open.

Her words: “We want the Lagos State Government to come to our rescue on Island! These boys are wasting innocent lives on daily basis.”

A microfinance bank, along Adeniji Adele road was not spare by the rampaging thugs who perforated the body of the bank’s official car with bullets.

A senior staff of the bank, who also craved anonymity said: “We are not safe doing business here. You can see what happened to our car. Look at the manner our vehicle was riddle with bullets. If it was a human being that was hit by that bullet, what do you think would be the fate of that person now?”

Kolawole Olawuyi, a tricycle operator who was hit by the stray bullet said: “I was taking some passengers to a police post along Adeniji Adele road, when I was hit by the bullets of the thugs. I was shot on the thigh, shoulder and my buttock. I didn’t know I was shot until some few hours later when I started feeling dizzy. But the pellets had been removed at a private hospital.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), Mr. Kenneth Nwosu, said: “We’re not aware of such an incident.”