*POLICE ARREST 26
Four people were feared killed and several injured after members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers(NURTW) and motorcycle operators, also known as (Okada), clashed today at the Ajah/Lekki area of Lagos.
Teams of
police who were drafted to the scene by the commissioner of police, Mr. Kayode
Aderanti, have so far, arrested 26 people.
An eye
witness said that the motorbike riders alleged that the members of NURTW, were
preventing their members from picking passengers at the motor park.
This move
apparently did not go down well with some of the motorbike riders who mobilized themselves as early as 8am at
the Ajah roundabout, closed to the park, brandishing cutlasses, axes and other
dangerous weapons.
The NURTW were
alleged to have also become combat ready and placed their members in a strategic
positions in the park.
An eye
witness said: “Immediately the NURTW
members sighted the Okada riders, they pounced on them and wounded two and
several other sustained various degrees of injury. I heard that four persons
were killed, but I didn’t see the corpses.”
Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer,
[PPRO], Mr. Kenneth Nwosu, said: “Our men
from Area J Command were on ground to maintained law and order, while the two
people who were machete during the clash had been rushed to a private hospital
for proper medical attention.”
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