Lagos Island area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria 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.

P.M.NEWS gathered that 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.

Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos Command, Mr. Joseph Jaiyeola told P.M.NEWS that the situation is under control, confirming that there was a violent clash between NURTW factions last night resulting in the death of one person who was axed in the neck.

“Mobile policemen and the usual ones are on standby. We have enough men on ground. We have been able to curtail the crisis,” he said.

Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area, LCDA Chairman, Kamal Salau, said the council was able to mobilise policemen to quell the crisis, adding that the situation had been brought under control.

Meanwhile, the Lagos State Government has vowed to shut down motor parks in the state where clashes among factions of NURTW are rampant.
The government said it can no longer tolerate clashes and disturbances in some motor parks in the state as a result of the tussle by NURTW factions as to which faction should control certain parks.

“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,” said the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Adeyemi Ibirogba.

“Government is not happy that union leaders have, in the recent times, been engaging in acts that threaten the public peace through their seeming adoption of violence as the means of achieving supremacy among the contenders for union positions,” he added.

Ibirogba lamented that these disturbances were going on without recourse to the law and at great risks to innocent citizens, who were now subjected to untold hardship through “this lawlessness and act of indiscipline was not acceptable to government.”
“We, therefore, call 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, as government will, henceforth, take over any park where there are disturbances or violent power tussle,” said Ibirogba, in a statement.
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

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/01/31/lagos-island-boils-again-as-nurtw-factions-clash/

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Agwero life no start today in Yorubaland, i am loving it.
If not by the grace of God, Akintola could have knocked all the teeth of Awolowo out

Why these ppl dey disturb we area na?

Na today?

i got hm wit my hrt in my mouth last nyt, wz terrible, i hp dey dont start dis evenin again

this nurtw organisation na tout joor we dont need such pple again govt should do something about them afterall na them dey make transport xpensive for lag with all their garage money and road side payment

These Mc Oluomo and Olohunwa are becoming gods in their territory. Fashola is handicapped to deal with them because without them there is no AC in Lagos. Remove agbero for AC; the party will shake  . I can assure anyone that all those arrests are mickey mouse stories

dazzy4real:

this nurtw organisation na tout joor we dont need such pple again govt should do something about them afterall na them dey make transport xpensive for lag with all their garage money and road side payment

Yorubaman can never survive without Egunje

i wish 2 c pix of dese NURTW gods
olohunwa, oluomo, sego et all

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These people and their area boys mentality! Rascals all of them! Shame of a region!

why can't Lagos government do away with this agberoos, abi na them hold the town

Dyt:

i wish 2 c pix of dese NURTW gods
olohunwa, oluomo, sego et all

seconded, Dyt u leave on the island

yh
born, bred, schooled, live

Wetin una dey expect?

When common abgero (Olohnuwa) uses a Mint Hummer Suv with customized number plate "Olohunwa"

Dont blame them when Governors finance, support and protects them.

Wetin dey worry all these yeye ibo boys? Na today agbero dey fight wetin con be una own

Wetin dey worry all these yeye ibo boys? Na today agbero dey fight wetin con be una own

pple re fighting killing eachother all the time making life a living here and this is what u will say

NURTW is every where in naija! Their H/Q is in Abuja, but lagos state government should send them packing or re-organize them like lastma, because nurtw also paying huge amount undocumented tax to government nation wide.

Bunch of lazy idiots.Later some mofons will come out here to tell me Yorubas are the most educated,peace loving civilized Nigerians.A region where touts and urchins hold sway and are supported by the government.

now aleyas agaisnt aleyas, una no dey taya abi dey swear for una

Wily2wily:

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Agwero life no start today in Yorubaland, i am loving it.
If not by the grace of God, Akintola could have knocked all the teeth of Awolowo out

I wish i can knock all your fingers out for typing that rubbish.

Funny enough, i witnessed the fight this morning and the fighting was as near as wateva distance u can think of to the Lion Building Police station on the Island and yet the police,

This is comfirmed and it will shock you to know that MC Oluomo of oshodi fame is an igbo man.for those of you making useless noice about yoruba and touts,i can tell you there are a good number of them that are "naturalised " igbo men that are born,bread and buttered in lagos who are agberos.so pls guys shut up profer solutions to the crisis at hand.

after eating too much amala with ewedu what else do you expect. rascal set of people,Awo legacy at work,up awolowo boys

legba1:

This is comfirmed and it will shock you to know that MC Oluomo of oshodi fame is an igbo man.for those of you making useless noice about yoruba and touts,i can tell you there are a good number of them that are "naturalised " igbo men that are born,bread and buttered in lagos who are agberos.so pls guys shut up profer solutions to the crisis at hand.

As usual, they thrive in denial.

@topic. This is no news; it is a habit in those parts.

All the area boys,agbero and NURTW members in Lagos are moslems, why

why can't Lagos government do away with this agberoos, abi na them hold the town

they are there for a reason. . . .when ibo trespass beyond allowed boundary, these same people you call useless agbero will become useful. . . . . ,

Wasn't MC Oluomo the dude shown on a tv documentary with choice cars in his compound.

Seems he's illiterate though as he couldn't string a sentence in English rather used a translator.


Also walks with a limp probably from years of fighting  

All the area boys,agbero and NURTW members in Lagos are moslems, why

. . . the same reason that muslims in North cause trouble. . . .and a muslim in SS, called Dokubo, cause trouble.

Negro_Ntns:

they are there for a reason. . . .when ibo trespass beyond allowed boundary, these same people you call useless agbero will become useful. . . . . ,  

guy no kill me with laughter o

@BlackBaron

Wasn't MC Oluomo the dude shown on a tv documentary with choice cars in his compound.

Seems he's illiterate though as he couldn't string a sentence in English rather used a translator.


Also walks with a limp probably from years of fighting

They always praise him like this "there is no king in Oshodi, but Oluomo"