Couple Bathed With Acid In Osun State.

Doctors are battling to save the eyes of a banker in Ile Ife,
Osun State, Mr. Tope Akinlabi, and his wife, Mulikat, who
were bathed with acid by some yet-to-be-identified people.
It was learnt that Tope and his wife were returning home on
foot after the close of work on Monday, December 16, when
two men riding on a motorcycle met up with them and
emptied the content of a jerry can on them.
Tope was said to have gone to his wife’s shop at the Eleyele
area of Ile Ife after he closed from work on the fateful day.
The attackers met up with them while the two of them were
going home on foot  around 7pm when the incident
happened.
It was learnt that while the husband’s face was badly
affected, the burns on the wife’s face was less severe due to
the Hijab she was said to have put on.
It was gathered that the screams of the couple attracted
passersby to the scene of the incident.
They were said to have chased the attackers and caught
them and one of them pleaded that they had been sent..
The Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Mrs. Dorothy
Gimba, when contacted on the telephone, said she had not
been briefed about the case.
She said, “I was involved in another assignment. But I will
find out and I can assure you that we will surely investigate
and make sure that justice is done in the case. Husband and
wife attacked with acid? That is terrible.”punch