At least five youths, belonging to a villainous group on the Lagos Island, were on Wednesday night shot dead along Ajah Road in a war of supremacy amongst the rival groups, thereby plunging the state into pandemonium and counter attacks.
Our
correspondent gathered that the deceased, along with other youths from Lagos
Island, went for a naming ceremony in Ajah area of the state and were returning
home in a chartered Volkswagen bus when another set of hoodlums opened fire on
the bus and killed five of the occupants.
The
driver of the vehicle and one other youth, who pretended to have been dead from
the bullet wounds they sustained, were said to have escaped back to the Island
to report the incidents to their relatives.
The
deceased, who were identified to be boys working with the chairman of the
National Union of Road Transport workers (NURTW), Oyebanji branch, Lagos
Island, Alhaji Mustapha Adio Adekunle (aka. Seego), include, Samson, Ganiyu,
Idris, Ladi and one other.
LEADERSHIP
FRIDAY learnt that blood bath commenced on the Lagos Island when the news got
to relatives of the deceased and Seego as large a number of hoodlums gathered
and started attacking relatives of those boys they believed to have carried out
the killing.
To this
end, houses belonging to Olokodana family on the Island were torched by the
miscreants who claimed to be protesting the brutal killing of the five boys.
Also,
residences and lock-up shops belonging to one Tunde (Alabi Yellow), who was
alleged to have caused the killing, was invaded by the hoodlums and razed down.
Residents
said trouble started last week Sunday on the Island when Seego and another
leader of notorious boys, identified as Tunde (Alabi Yellow) met at a social
gathering and Seego asked Yellow to bow for him, but refused.
It was
further gathered that Seego then ordered his boys to deal with Yellow by
breaking bottle on his head, even as they tore his clothes into shreds.
The
resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said it was in a reprisal
attack that some supporters of Yellow laid ambush for some of Seego’s boys who
went to Ajah for a naming ceremony and opened fire on their bus.
It was
learnt that the attackers also cut off the head of Samson popularly known as
Songa, believed to be the one that broke bottle on Yellow’s head on the order
of Seego at the social gathering.
The
Police Public Relations officer, Lagos Command, Ken Nwosu, who confirmed the incident,
said two of the attacked youths died and two others who sustained bullet
injuries were presently at an undisclosed hospital where they were receiving
urgent medical attention.
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