A young man, identified to be mentally
unstable, narrowly escaped death by a whisker as mob descended on him,
on Tuesday, August 16.
The incident which occurred near
Edinburgh roundabout, Ogui New Layout attracted a large crowd who were
enraged by what they saw.
The man hit a boy who was returning from
coaching class on the head with an iron rod, and the boy fell.
According to reports by eye-witnesses, when they saw what happened to
the boy, the crowd descended on the mad man with stones and wood and
beat him up. An eye-witness, who pleaded anonymity, said the acclaimed
mad man would have been killed but passers-by pleaded that he should be
spared because he was not mentally fit.
“The mad man was going in the same
direction with the boy who was returning from a holiday lesson when the
mad man hit him on the head. The people would have killed him if not
that some people prevailed on them that he is mad man. “Women around the
place shouted for help and drew the attention of the angry youths who
came with different sizes of wood to kill the man.
But the same women who drew the
attention to the boy’s plight also shouted that the mad man should not
be killed”. A source identified as Ben Okoro, who revealed that the boy
was rushed to the hospital for treatment as blood rushed out of his
head, said similar occurrence had taken place at Ogbete market and
Gariki earlier this year. He said, “The boy was rushed to the hospital
for treatment as blood gushed out of his head. The same thing happened
early this year at Ogbete market and Gariki.
The rate of attacks by men has been on
the rise lately. It would be recall that a 37-year-old mother was
attacked by a man with acid for not paying him for drug (non-payment of
drug money).
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