Police arrest 50 over Lagos NURTW clash
By VICTOR EBIMOMI
Sunday, February 12, 2012




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More than 50 people are now cooling their heels in different cells over the bloody clash among some units of the Lagos State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) a few days ago.
The feud, which occurred [b]on Lagos Island, claimed nine lives [/b]before the intervention of the police and the Special Task Force on the Environment.

The confrontation started on Wednesday and before the dust settled down, [b]five persons lost their lives. A reprisal attack on Thursday claimed four lives. [/b]The casualty figure would have been higher but for the intervention of the police. The Lagos State Police Command spokesman, Joseph Jaiyeoba, said the divisional police in the area arrested four persons while two suspects that capitalised on the mayhem to rob were killed and two others arrested.

Those arrested, he said, were immediately transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for further interrogation. He said men of the Lagos State Task Force on the Environment however made some arrests which he could not confirm, but a source at the task force office in Alausa confirmed that on Wednesday alone, 47 arrests were made while a good number of arrests were made the following day. “Forty-seven persons were arrested on Wednesday but I have not confirmed the number of arrests the following day,” the source said.
The clash which was over supremacy, was between the Onola and Isale-Eko units.

The Onola boys were allegedly led by a unit chairman of the Oyebanji motor park known as Seego while the Isale Eko faction was reportedly led by one Omo Ashake, said to be a supporter of the former chairman of the state chapter, Alhaji Olohunwa. The state chapter has been enmeshed in crisis, particularly at the leadership level. The former chairman and treasurer, popularly called Alhaji Olu-omo, were perennially at daggers-drawn, forcing the national body to ban the duo from the union’s activities.

Question of the day:
Do we have NURTW in other zones of Nigeria? If so, why don't we hear about them? Why do they not play deadly motor park politics like the ones reported in the above article and we also have read uncountable times from other states in one zone alone?

Transport business is always big in economic viable cities. With corruption in every facet of our lives criminality is injected to all economic activities to take advantage of other.
That is why in other parts Oil related crime is popular, in some places it's armed robbery due to high volume of cash movements, in some places religion is the easiest tool for criminality.

The underlying factor is that , crime committed ever part of the world. The question is what do you prey on?