How robbers plucked out eyes of PhD holder for being penniless

A 49-year old PhD holder, Dr. Michael Ebonhor has given gory details of how he was blinded by armed robbers following his inability to give them money when he was attacked.

Dr. Ebonhor who narrated the incident in an interview with Punch Newspaper, said he was 23 at the time when robbers numbering about six aided his room when he was a 200-level Geography and Social Studies student at the Tai Solarin College of Education (now Tai Solarin University of Education), Ijebu Ode, Ogun State.

While Ebonhor’s roommate was lucky to have escaped the fury of the robbers who had come with dangerous weapons, including guns and machetes by running away, the Delta State indigene was not that lucky, as the robbers descended on him for not having money to give to them.

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Although Ebonhor’s blindness was shocking and sudden and was greeted with sadness by his family, the father of two said he has overcome the regret of losing his sight in such a manner.

Ebonhor who is now a Guidance Counselling Officer with the Federal Ministry of Education, Ogun State, said, “When the robbers entered my room, they demanded for money. They used the guns to hit me on the head and used a machete to torture me and in the end, they plucked out my two eyes.”I was unconscious for hours after my eyes were plucked out

“I was hospitalised for six months. When the attack happened, I became unconscious. But after some hours, I woke up. So, when I woke up, I saw total darkness and when I realised that my two eyes were gone, I was so devastated.

“He told me that even if someone donated an eye for me to see again, the nerves connecting my eyes and the brain had been damaged. So, nobody can donate an eye for me that will work”, Ebonhor narrated.