Saturday, May 25, 2013

Six killed as thugs clash in Lagos



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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