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Lagos assembly probes shooting of teargas canister into teenager’s eye
A 12-year-old student of Adam Yakubu Memorial High School, Aminat Alage, is currently battling for her life after a teargas canister allegedly fired by a team of policemen attached to the Dopemu Division struck her in the left eye at Iloro in the Agege area of Lagos State.
This is as the state House of Assembly ordered a probe into the incident which occurred on Friday, February 9, at about 2 pm.
PUNCH Online learnt that the police officers were said to have been mobilised to the school after a fight broke out among two factional groups.
On getting there, the officers while dispersing the students, allegedly fired teargas canisters into their midst.
One of the canisters said to have been shot indiscriminately by the police hit Alage in the face, damaging one of her eyes in the process.
Narrating the incident, an eyewitness said the junior class student was immediately rushed to the hospital.
The eyewitness who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the incident said, “Some Secondary School Students of Iloro Secondary School were fighting within themselves when some of the students went to Alabode Police Station to report the matter and the DPO sent four officers to visit the school to calm the situation.
“But when the policemen got there, they started to shoot teargas at the students anyhow. Aminat was just about to enter the mosque situated next to the school compound to observe the Friday Jumat prayer when one of the canisters hit her in the eye. All these happened after school hours.”
The victim’s mother, Halimat, told PUNCH Online that on Thursday (today), her daughter’s colleagues rushed to her shop to inform her of the incident.
She also accused the police officers of dumping her child at the hospital they took her to.
She said, “When my daughter’s colleagues came to tell me that the police shot a tear gas canister into her eye, I rushed down to the hospital where she was taken. When I got there, I was told that the police brought her there and left immediately. We were later referred to Lagos State Teaching Hospital where the doctors told us that they would carry out a series of surgeries and the first one would cost N850,000. We don’t have any money with us. The DPO later visited and gave us N50,000. I am helpless at the moment. My daughter is fighting for her life.”
In a video sent to our correspondent, the victim was seen writhing in pain while being attended to by medical personnel.
Reacting, the state Assembly called on the Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, and the ministry to offer necessary support to the young girl.
This was contained in a statement by Eromosele Ebhomele, the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, on Thursday.
Ebhomele noted that the matter was brought to the attention of the House by the chairman of the House Committee on Sports and Youth Development, Abiodun Orekoya, during a plenary session presided over by Deputy Speaker Mojisola Meranda.
Orekoya said he received the information through a human rights organisation, adding that the incident happened when two schools were embroiled in a clash and the police intervened with tear gas.
“He said the student’s parents have been borrowing money to pay for her treatment and that she is currently admitted to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.
“Orekoya pleaded with the House to call on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to offer support to the parents and help save Amina’s life before the situation worsens,” the statement read.
It added that the Deputy Speaker directed the Chairman of the House Committee on Education (Secondary) to summon the management of both schools involved in the clash and investigate what led to the clash, while they were expected to report back within one week.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, could not be reached as calls made to his mobile phone were not answered.
A text message sent to him had yet to be replied to as of the time this report was filed.
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