Motorcycle riders on Saturday morning killed a yet-to-be-identified Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in the Agege area of Lagos State.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that trouble started after a motorcycle rider collided with a trailer at WEMCO Junction, Mobil Road, Pen Cinema, Agege, resulting in his death on the spot.
Following the accident, police officers were dispatched to the area after receiving a distress call.
Upon arrival, the officers were met by a large crowd of motorcycle riders who had gathered, however, tensions escalated when the crowd attempted to set the trailer on fire, while the officers were trying to evacuate the vehicle from the scene.
During the confrontation, the 46-year-old ASP sustained a fatal head injury and died on the spot. The driver of the trailer was able to flee the scene.
Confirming the incident, the Lagos State Police Command spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin said, “While in service on 19/10/24 at about 01:40hrs a distress call was received that a motorcycle rider ran into a trailer at WEMCO Junction, Mobil Road, Pen Cinema, Agege, and died on the spot. Based on the report, a patrol team was mobilized to the scene.
“On arrival, the team met a large number of motorcycle riders gathered. However, the patrol team, in the process of evacuating the truck away from the scene, came under attack by the motorcycle riders who insisted on torching the truck. As a result, one ASP ‘m’ aged 46 years was injured on the head and he died on the spot while the truck driver escaped.”
The bodies of the deceased have been taken to Mainland General Hospital morgue in Yaba for autopsy.
According to the police spokesperson, five suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack, and a manhunt is currently underway for others who fled the scene.
“Corpses evacuated to Mainland General Hospital morgue, Yaba, for autopsy.
“Meanwhile, five suspects have been arrested, and a manhunt for other fleeing suspects is ongoing. Further development will be communicated,” he added.
The scenario turned fracas between operatives of the Nigerian police and commercial motorcyclists, known better as Okada riders, in the Cele-Ijesha area of Lagos State that led to the death of an officer have been relayed by eyewitnesses.
It was gathered that Okada riders were said to be protesting against the enforcement of the ban on commercial motorcycle operations in the area when the incident happened.
Findings also show that the motorcyclists also injured a Divisional Police Officer who was said to be part of the team enforcing the ban in the community.
During the enforcement around 11 am on Wednesday, it was learnt that the policemen accosted a motorcyclist plying the Mile 2-Cele axis.
In an attempt to seize the motorcycle, the motorcyclist resisted and other motorcyclists who witnessed the incident intervened to support their colleague which resulted in a clash with the policemen.
According to an eyewitness account of the story, one of the policemen attempted to use his gun to scare the motorcyclist and his colleagues away, adding that the motorcyclists overpowered the policeman and allegedly killed him.
He said “The policemen were trying to arrest one of the motorcycle riders shuttling the Cele-Ijesha and Mile 2 areas. It was while the motorcyclist was resisting arrest that other motorcyclists intervened and demanded the release of their colleague’s motorcycle.
“When the policemen refused and tried to drive the motorcyclists away, they refused to back down and stopped the policemen from leaving the spot. Then, one of the policemen tried to scare them away with his gun but they overpowered him and killed him.”
The second eyewitness, said the policemen hurriedly left the scene after realising that their colleague had been killed.
He said, “Immediately the policeman was killed, his colleagues who ran away called for reinforcement, and by the time they returned, the motorcyclists had fled. They were also seen brandishing different weapons while leaving the scene of the clash.”
The clash caused tension in the area as commuters and traders scampered to safety to avoid being hurt.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, while reacting to the development, said two suspects had been arrested, adding that 41 motorcycles were impounded.
No fewer than 480 Police Constables protested the non-payment of their salaries for 18 months on Wednesday in Osogbo.
The constables marched through strategic locations in the Osun capital, carrying placards with various inscriptions.
Some of the inscriptions read: “Pay our salaries now’’, “Okada riders are sleeping with our wives’’, “Pay us our stipends and allowances’’, among others.
Speaking with newsmen, PC Tijani Adewale said the constables had been denied their salaries after the completion of their training since May 2021.
He said in spite of the denial of their emoluments, they had remained committed to the duty of protecting lives and property.
Adewale said that three constables had lost their lives in the course of discharging their duties, while others were losing their wives to strange men.
He added that several efforts were made to ensure that the issue was given adequate attention and the salaries paid, but nothing happened.
Reacting to the protest, the Commissioner of Police in Osun, Mr Adewale Olokode, ordered the protesting constables to stop the action and channel their demands to the appropriate authorities.
Olokode assured the protesters that the police authority in charge would treat their grievance.
“You are embarrassing the force with your protest; you should have channelled your grievances to the appropriate quarters.
“It’s just like you are disturbing public peace with your protest. As far as you are wearing this uniform, we expect you to maintain high discipline as force men,’’ he charged.
In another development, some police officers in the state complained that they were yet to be paid their duty allowances for the coverage of the Osun July 16 governorship election.
One of them who spoke on the condition of anonymity said officers from the State Investigation Bureau, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, and Mobile Police Officers of MOPOL 39 had not been paid.
He said their counterparts deployed from outside Osun for the same election coverage had received their allowances.
“We have made efforts to find out the reason for the non-payment and we have not gotten any concrete feedback from the force headquarters.
“It is against the code of service to protest in demand for the allowance, but we are appealing to the Inspector-General of Police to look into our case,’’ he said.
Police operatives in Ogun State have arrested a commercial motorcyclist and his collaborators who gang-raped an 18-year-old female passenger in the State.
It was gathered that the incident happened at the Ogijo area of Sagamu Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday, August 30th.
The culprits whose names have been given as Emmanuel Thompson and Joshua Godwin are at the moment cooling off in police cell.
The state police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident and noted that the culprits are presently cooling off in police cell.
The victim (name withheld) had told the police that she boarded a commercial motorcycle at about 8:00 am from the MRI company area to Ogijo bus stop on Tuesday; “but on the way going, the rider who carried another male passenger with her suddenly diverted to another route, while the other male passenger started threatening to kill her if she did not cooperate with them.”
Oyeyemi said the teenager reported that “they forcefully took her to a room in one house in the area, where two other men were waiting for them.
“On getting there, the two men they met in the room and the accompanied male passenger took turns to have sex with her forcefully.”
On receiving the report. the District Police officer of Ogijo division, CSP onanufe Umoh said he drafted his men to arrest the culprits but noted that two other perpetrators vanished into thin air.
“The two arrested suspects have confessed to the commission of the crime.”
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Lanre Bankole, has directed the transfer of the suspects to the State CIID for further investigation and diligent prosecution.
Bankole assured that the other two fleeing culprits will be arrested in no time and be made to face the consequences.
The Police in Lagos have confirmed that one person died in a clash with motorcycle riders in the Oko-Oba area of the state.
Speaking about the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer of the State, SP Benjamin, who confirmed the incident said the riders violently attacked the police officers on the Abule-Egba bridge after an accident involving a car and a motorcycle happened in the area.
The Police in Lagos have confirmed that one person died in a clash with motorcycle riders in the Oko-Oba area of the state.
Speaking about the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer of the State, SP Benjamin, who confirmed the incident said the riders violently attacked the police officers on the Abule-Egba bridge after an accident involving a car and a motorcycle happened in the area.
“After a minor accident involving a car and a motorcycle occurred on the Abule-Egba Bridge at about 4 pm Tuesday, motorcycle riders in their numbers started fomenting trouble. Police arrived on the scene to quell the unrest. The riders violently attacked the Police. This resulted in the death of one of the riders.”
Hundeyin, however, assured the residents of the area to carry on their daily activities saying that officers of the law are on standby to prevent any breakdown of law and order.
He, however, noted that peace had been restored to the area and that officers were in the area to forestall any breakdown of law and order.
“Normalcy has been restored to the area. The DPO Oko-Oba and his men are on the ground to forestall any breakdown of law and order,” Hundeyin said.
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has banned the operations of commercial motorcycles popularly called Okada, in Ikeja, Surulere, Eti-Osa, Lagos Mainland, Lagos Island, and Apapa.
The Governor gave out the directive at a meeting with the Commissioner of Police, Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) at the State House in Alausa.
The fresh Okada ban followed the February 2020 restriction placed on the activities of commercial motorcycles.
Sanwo-Olu said the Government took the decision in line with the State’s Transport Sector Reform Law of 2018 to immediately address the chaos and menace created by the operations of Okada in the listed areas.
He told the police to enforce the order without compromise.
He said, “After a critical review of our restriction on Okada activities in the first six Local Government Areas where we restricted them on February 1, 2020, we have seen that the menace has not abated. We are now directing a total ban on Okada activities across the highways and bridges within these six Local Government and their Local Council Development Areas, effective from June 1, 2022.
“This is a phased ban we are embarking on this period, and we expect that within the short while when this ban will be enforced, Okada riders in other places where their activities are yet to be banned can find something else to do. We have given the notice now and we expect all commercial motorcycles plying the routes in the listed councils and areas to vacate the highways before enforcement begins. The enforcement will be total.”
The ban is coming days after Okada riders killed a young man in the Lekki area of Lagos State over N100 balance.
It was learnt that the victim, who was a sound engineer, was lynched and burnt to death after a misunderstanding ensued over the N100 balance with one of the commercial motorcyclists.
David Imoh
Acording to Grace, widow of the 37-year-old sound engineer, who was killed by motorcyclists in Lagos State, David Imoh, her husband was killed while trying to settle a fight between two friends and his killers.
In an interview, Grace said her husband was wrongly labelled as a ritualist and Yahoo Boy before being lynched to death.
“They didn’t just beat him, they stabbed and burnt him to death,” the mother of two broke down in tears. He was burnt as if he is a robber. They have taken my world away from me because of N100. This is not good,” she added.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) two suspects have been arrested in connection with Imoh’s death
The late Imoh, who was popularly called Dave Sound, had an aged mother, a five-year-old boy and another One-year and five-month-old baby.
She identified the two other friends of her late husband involved in the fight as band members of D’Banj and Phyno.
The widow said, “My husband went to work on May 10, I was called on May 13 by one of his friends that we lost him. He said his family should come to the Maroko police station. So my relatives and his own went there. The police told them that my husband and his friend climbed the Aboki (Hausa man)’s bike, and they had an argument over N100.
“In the process, one of the Okada guys was hit and he fell down so they started beating them up. My husband was beaten and they were shouting that he is a ritualist and a Yahoo Boy. After being beaten, he was burnt to death.”
Grace, however, explained that the narrative by one of Imoh’s friends made her realise that her late husband was invited to settle the dispute over the N100 balance when he was killed.
She continued, “But on Twitter, a colleague of his put up a video on what happened. She said my husband was setting up in a bar. Being a sound engineer he works with Church of God Mission Garden City, Lekki during the day. He also works with Legacy 360 Band in the evening when there is a show.
“My husband was not part of those who mounted the bike. Two guys (band members) took the bike and when they arrived at the venue, an argument happened between the two guys and the motorcyclist.
“They gave the motorcyclist N500 and were to get a balance of N100 but the bike man said he didn’t have change. They told him to take N300 but he refused and a fight broke out.
“My husband was invited to intervene in the issue. David intervened because of N100 and was killed. He came outside trying to intervene but when they saw that the motorcyclists were overpowering them, they had to run back inside the bar but the bar manager pushed them out. He denied knowing them, David tried hiding but a Hausa lady exposed him.”
Grace, who is a civil servant and a Post Graduate Diploma holder, called on the Lagos State Government to ensure justice in the matter.
“All because he wanted to help settle a dispute, he was killed. They have taken away my world. Please Lagos Government, Governor Sanwo-Olu, my Head of Service, Muri Okunola, and others help me, I cry for justice and for the welfare of my children. Please come to my rescue. I’m helpless,” she said.
“How do I take care of these kids. I wanted to pursue my Master’s and get my COREN certification as an engineer. Those were his plans for me. My husband is the only one helping me. How will my children go to school?”
One person has been confirmed dead and others injured following a clash between motorcycle (Okada) riders at Ibeshe, Yewa North local government area of Ogun State.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the DSP, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident, however, was not certain about the casualty figure.
It was gathered that the clash started on Monday when motorcycle riders operating around Ibese were at loggerheads with the union leaders over a hike in ticket fees from N600 to N800.
“The issue is currently under control,” Oyeyemi said, noting that “it was a minor struggle that snowballed into a crisis”.
“They said the unions increased their ticket fee from N600 to N800 and that was how the crisis started. But how it then turned into the Hausa and Yoruba crisis is what I don’t know. But, we are on top of the matter. The situation has been brought under control. Our men are still there as we speak”.
Sources say so far, over 12 motorcycles have been burnt even as the locals barricaded the area to stop movement.
A community leader who pleaded anonymity said while some soldiers were mobilised to restore sanity on Monday, the clash between warring parties, however, resumed today.
In the process of trying to restore peace, soldiers allegedly shot at aggrieved indigenes, killing one, while another has been hospitalised.
Hakeem Odumosu, the police commissioner in Lagos State said statistics have shown that armed hoodlums who operate on motorcycles or Okada, are responsible for the bulk of crimes.
Odumosu made this known while appraising the security situation in the state at a stakeholders’ meeting on Monday in Ikeja.
He said hoodlums had found motorcycles as a veritable means of escape from the scenes of crime.
According to him, crime reports from the field in the last five months have shown that the hoodlums are responsible for armed robbery, cultism, kidnapping, murder, burglary and stealing, among others.
”It has also been established that Okadas are being illegally used as a veritable means of conveying hard drugs from one point to another.
“The consequences of spreading of hard drugs and its consumption are better imagined than said.”
The police chief said traffic robbery, carjacking, movement of arms and cash-snatching from bank customers had been traced to armed hoodlums who operate on Okada.
Odumosu said that a large section of Lagos populace had come to regard commercial motorcycles as a necessary evil, hence, government should take more drastic measures against their notoriety.
He said that in the five months under review (January to May 9), 192 Okada riders had died from 280 accidents.
The CP said that the number of deaths recorded in road accidents and crime committed with the use of Okada across the state, had assumed a worrisome dimension as the statistics had continued to rise.
He said available record in the command revealed that in January 90 Okada accidents occurred; February (76), March (101), April (84) while in May till date 34 Okada accidents had been recorded.
He said out of the 192 deaths, February recorded 37 cases of deaths, March had 58 fatality cases while 14 died within 7 days in May.
Odumosu said that Okada accidents on the roads were mostly caused by recklessness and lawlessness of the riders.
He said that it was common sight in Lagos metropolis to see Okada operators ride recklessly on highways, facing oncoming road users, especially during peak periods.
He urged the state government to provide further stringent measures that would curtail the excesses of commercial motorcycle operators.
Commercial motorcyclists known as Okada riders on Saturday clashed with truck drivers after a motorcyclist rammed into a stationary truck on Friday night.
According to reports, the motorcyclist and his passenger died on the spot.
The incident infuriated other Okada riders who vandalised and set the truck ablaze.
The Okada riders were said to have been angered by the fact that the truck driver did not put any caution sign on the road to indicate danger ahead.
Other truck drivers mobilised on Saturday morning and started attacking any Okada rider found along the High Court road area in Akure where the incident occurred.
More than five Okada riders were injured in the attacks while the truck drivers blocked the roads in the area protesting the burnt truck.
Meanwhile, Ondo Government officials led by Senior Special Assistant to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on Security Matters, Jimoh Dojumo visited the scene and called for a halt to hostilities while the investigation is carried out.
Commercial motorcyclists popularly known as Okada riders and police operatives are reportedly clashing in the Ogba area of Lagos state, halting all commercial activities in the community.
According to multiple reports on social media, the pandemonium began as a result of the alleged shooting of an okada rider.
During the commotion, gunshots were said to have enclosed the air around Area G Command and Ogba bus stop end of Micheal Ogunnusi road, forcing several commuters and traders to abandon their wares for safety.
According to reports, a policeman allegedly killed one Okada rider and wounded the other yesterday night.
In retaliation, other commercial motorcyclists stormed the police station and were about setting the station ablaze before they were repelled, resulting in gunshots.
Routes leading to the popular Excellence Hotel roundabout, Ogba Market and WAEC office have been blocked with vans of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) unit of the police.
…More details later
UPDATE: The policemen at Ogba (Area G) keeps oppressing the bike men, they killed 2 yesterday night, still came back this morning to continue the oppression.
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