Lagos Island Boils Again As NURTW Factions Clash.
Lagos Island area of Lagos State, boiled this morning as factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, clashed again.
Shops and vehicles were said to have been destroyed this morning while one person was reportedly killed last night when the crisis turned bloody.
Policemen have been deployed to the area to maintain peace.
supporters of Rafiu Olohunwa and MC Oluomo clashed on the Island as the crisis is said to have spread to Adeniji Adele, Campos Square and Idumota.
Pandemonium broke out in the area as people scampered to safety and hurriedly closed their shops.
A police source revealed that over 25 vehicles were destroyed during the fracas. This morning, there was an uneasy calm in Idumota, Adeniji Adele and Campos Square as most of the shops were shut.
Clashes last night and this morning were a fallout of last Friday’s clash in which a supporter of Olohunwa was said to have been killed by Oluomo’s faction of the NURTW.
Olohunwa’s faction allegedly retaliated last night by killing a supporter of Oluomo while hell was let loose thereafter as dangerous weapons were used freely.
Scores of hoodlums have been arrested over the clashes.
Lagos State Police Command has deployed Policemen to maintain peace at Lagos Island area where factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, clashed again.
Shops and vehicles were said to have been destroyed while one person was reportedly killed when the crisis turned bloody.
To this end the Police Command directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of Operations, Tunde Shobulo to take over the ongoing operations in the area so as to restore peace.
Commissioner of Police, Yakubu Alkali who made this known appealed to lagosians to go about their normal daily activities as the situation is under control.
His plea is contained in a statement signed by the New Police Public Relations Officer, Joseph Jaiyeola.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Government has vowed to shut down motor parks in the state where clashes among factions of the Union are rampant.
The government said it can no longer tolerate clashes and disturbances in some motor parks as a result of the tussle by the Union factions as to which faction should control certain parks.
Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Aderemi Ibirogba said the current wave of disturbances at some motor parks in the state, especially on Lagos lsland, occasioned by the struggle for control by the different union leaders, is to say the least, very worrisome.
Ibirogba said government is not happy that union leaders have been engaging in acts that threaten public peace through their seeming adoption of violence as the means of achieving supremacy among the contenders for union positions.
He called on the different union leaders to stop, forthwith, such acts of breach to public peace and allow peace to reign in all the motor parks.
A clash between factions of the union led to a bloody fight last Friday, resulting in the death of one person. Some victims were injured and six persons arrested in connection with the violence.
It was gathered that trouble started after the NURTW National President, Alhaji Najeem Yasin, during a closed-door meeting at the union’s Abule Egba office, stated that the Lagos State NURTW election would hold at a date to be announced later, since the five contestants to the number one seat in the state could not present a consensus candidate.
The former chairman, Alhaji Rafiu Olohunwa’s supporters were said to have been caught off guard as their expectation was that the NURTW National President would handpick and endorse their man at the meeting.
Yasin’s announcement led to clashes at Iyana-Ipaja and later on Lagos Island, where Alhaji Ola-Shehu was alleged to have been shot dead by supporters of a chairmanship candidate.
Shops and vehicles were said to have been destroyed this morning while one person was reportedly killed last night when the crisis turned bloody.
Policemen have been deployed to the area to maintain peace.
supporters of Rafiu Olohunwa and MC Oluomo clashed on the Island as the crisis is said to have spread to Adeniji Adele, Campos Square and Idumota.
Pandemonium broke out in the area as people scampered to safety and hurriedly closed their shops.
A police source revealed that over 25 vehicles were destroyed during the fracas. This morning, there was an uneasy calm in Idumota, Adeniji Adele and Campos Square as most of the shops were shut.
Clashes last night and this morning were a fallout of last Friday’s clash in which a supporter of Olohunwa was said to have been killed by Oluomo’s faction of the NURTW.
Olohunwa’s faction allegedly retaliated last night by killing a supporter of Oluomo while hell was let loose thereafter as dangerous weapons were used freely.
Scores of hoodlums have been arrested over the clashes.
Lagos State Police Command has deployed Policemen to maintain peace at Lagos Island area where factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, clashed again.
Shops and vehicles were said to have been destroyed while one person was reportedly killed when the crisis turned bloody.
To this end the Police Command directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of Operations, Tunde Shobulo to take over the ongoing operations in the area so as to restore peace.
Commissioner of Police, Yakubu Alkali who made this known appealed to lagosians to go about their normal daily activities as the situation is under control.
His plea is contained in a statement signed by the New Police Public Relations Officer, Joseph Jaiyeola.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Government has vowed to shut down motor parks in the state where clashes among factions of the Union are rampant.
The government said it can no longer tolerate clashes and disturbances in some motor parks as a result of the tussle by the Union factions as to which faction should control certain parks.
Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Aderemi Ibirogba said the current wave of disturbances at some motor parks in the state, especially on Lagos lsland, occasioned by the struggle for control by the different union leaders, is to say the least, very worrisome.
Ibirogba said government is not happy that union leaders have been engaging in acts that threaten public peace through their seeming adoption of violence as the means of achieving supremacy among the contenders for union positions.
He called on the different union leaders to stop, forthwith, such acts of breach to public peace and allow peace to reign in all the motor parks.
A clash between factions of the union led to a bloody fight last Friday, resulting in the death of one person. Some victims were injured and six persons arrested in connection with the violence.
It was gathered that trouble started after the NURTW National President, Alhaji Najeem Yasin, during a closed-door meeting at the union’s Abule Egba office, stated that the Lagos State NURTW election would hold at a date to be announced later, since the five contestants to the number one seat in the state could not present a consensus candidate.
The former chairman, Alhaji Rafiu Olohunwa’s supporters were said to have been caught off guard as their expectation was that the NURTW National President would handpick and endorse their man at the meeting.
Yasin’s announcement led to clashes at Iyana-Ipaja and later on Lagos Island, where Alhaji Ola-Shehu was alleged to have been shot dead by supporters of a chairmanship candidate.
No comments:
Post a Comment