Five Injured As Lagos Task Force, Motorists Clash

No fewer than six persons including policemen sustained injuries on Wednesday morning as officials of Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and commercial motorists clashed at Abule Egba.

The fight started after a bus conductor was rumoured killed by the task force officials.

Police said no one was killed, and noted that the violence resulted from a false alarm raised by an errant driver.

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It was gathered that suspected members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW), attacked policemen with stones, bottles and other objects in protest of the alleged killing of their member.

Ekohotblog gathered that about five policemen were injured in the clash.

The violence, which spread to Alakuko and other neighbouring communities along the Abeokuta Expressway, grounded commercial activities as people scampered to safety and
traffic was stalled.

Police spokesman, Bala Elkana said five suspects have been arrested and calm restored.

“Nobody died,” saying that the injured conductor was being treated in hospital.

But NURTW officials insisted that the conductor died, and that police should say which hospital he was being treated, if he did not die.