by S’ola Filani

Two policemen were stabbed on Wednesday in Alakija area of Lagos while trying to drive an insane woman away from the premises of a popular pentecostal church.

Trouble allegedly started when the insane woman was stand­ing in front of the church and policemen deployed to the area attempted to evict her.

Suddenly, a madman, who was watching what was going on, went to meet the policemen ostensibly to stop them.

Eyewitnesses narrated the incident:

“The policemen left the woman and confronted the insane man. They started beating him with their ba­tons. The madman, who was with a stick started flogging the policemen.

“Suddenly, the madman brought out a broken bottle from his bag and stabbed the two policemen, who were later rushed to Navy Town Hospital by church mem­bers and onlookers.

“News got to other police­men attached to the church that their colleagues had been stabbed by the mad­man and they reinforced and began to look for the mad­man, whom they found at Alakija Bus-stop.

“The five policemen sur­rounded the madman and tried to overpower him and after much struggle, they tied him up with a rope and bundled him into their van and took him back to the church for interrogation.”