by Oge Okonkwo

A couple Tope Akinlabi and Mulikat Akinlabi are currently fighting for their health after they were bathed with acid by some yet-to-be-identified people.

Sources say Akinlabi and his wife were returning home from work on Monday, December 16 at about 7pm when the incident occurred.

Akinlabi and his wife were going home on foot when their attackers – two men riding on a motorcycle – met up with the couple and emptied the content of a jerry can on them.

Reports say:

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.

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.”