Suspected Hired Thugs Beat 72-yr-Old-Man To Stupor In Akure Over Dispute

Three suspected hired thugs are now in  police net for allegedly beating a 72 year old man,Pa. Ilesanmi Adedayo who is currently receiving medical attention at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC),Ile-ife,Osun state to a state of coma.

Pa. Ilesanmi Adedayo Receiving Treatment At the OAU Teaching Hospital

However, a middle aged man who said to have engaged the services of the thugs are now on the trail of the policemen.

Information gathered at the hospital at the weekend revealed that,the septuagenarian was hit by an object by these thugs while trying to settle a land dispute among some members in his family circle at Iron, Akure, Ondo state.

In the process of settling the feud,it was gathered that a desperate middle aged man in the family circle, simply identified as Akin who insisted that nobody should tamper with the property for it belongs to his father recruited the services of the thugs who manhandled the old man.

However, since pa. Adebayo has been hospitalised in the hospital since about 8 days ago, his two eyes are yet to be opened while he still remains unconscious despite the fact that he is breathing.

Speaking with our correspondent at OAUTHC, Ile-ife on the development,one of the beaten up old man children, Mrs. modupe Akinlawon expressed dissatisfaction to the incident she described as inhuman,callous and wicked and commended the law enforcement agents in seeing that the perpetrators of the seeds are brought to book since the ugly incidence happened.

Akinlawon who stated that the thugs hit her father’s head with wood,revealed that as a result of the object,blood has splashed into her father’s brain which caused him to be unconscious and unable to open his two eyes.

She however maintained that,since her father arrived the hospital, he has been In a state of coma adding that,he has undergone an operation to revive his consciousness.

The woman who stressed that before her father was being brought to OAUTHC,Ile-Ife, she has been attended to at trauma medical Centre, Ondo,prayed to God to revive his father’s health.

One of the medical experts who preferred anonymity told our reporter that, when such an incident happened like that,the surviving chances of the victim is 50/50 because of the major surgical operation that would be performed on him.

According to him,the type of operation to be performed on such a person is called borehole and that,it is not guaranteed; that the victim would be automatically healed