Six persons
were killed on Saturday (yesterday) morning, when men, suspected to be members
of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), clash at the Lekki/Ajah
area of Lagos State.
It was gathered
that about three factions; the Olumegbo boys, Ajah boys and Ilaje boys clashed,
over what had been described by eye witnesses as battle for supremacy over motor
parks.
Eye-witnesses
accounts claimed that yesterday morning, the thugs agreed to meet at a certain
area of Lekki/Ajah, at about 6am
By the time
police got the information and raced to the scene, the battled had been fought,
won and lost.
It was
gathered that scene of the fight was like a river of blood. The wounded had
been rushed to hospital, while the dead had been taken away by their respective
factions.
The Olumegbo
boys were said to have lost three men, the Ilaje boy lost one, while the Ajah
boy also recorded dead of one man.
The grieving
Olumegbo boys were said to have carried the corpses of their dead colleagues to
the palace of Olumegbo.
The reason
for the present clash is still vague, but there had always being an ongoing
feud between the three factions.
The factions
came to be years ago, after the leaders of the factions, started fighting over
parcels of land in the area. Apparently determined to win the land acquisition
war at all cost, the leaders had gone to different parts of the Lagos to hire
thugs, who would always be ready to fight.
These thugs
had metamorphosed and soon have different motor parks.
For peace to
reign, the Olumegbo, Ilaje and Ajah boys are not supposed to trespass into one
another’s boundary at motor parks. A faction, going into another motor park to
collect toll, had often been the causes of their clashes, if not over land.
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