January 23, 2022

Some members of the union, otherwise known as Agberos were engaged in a bloody clash in Lagos on Friday over who controls some motor parks and junctions in the busy Idumota market area of the state.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) , CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, disclosed this in Lagos on Saturday.

Ajisebutu, however, did not mention how many people were arrested and where they were being detained.

He added that normalcy had returned to the Island as more operatives had been deployed there.

“The police have quelled the crisis. Sufficient facilities were deployed in the area immediately we received a distress call and normalcy was restored.

”Investigation into the crisis is ongoing,” he said.

Two factions of the NURTW clashed over the control of some motor parks on the Island on Friday.

The videos of the clash went viral on Friday showing the hoodlums using dangerous weapons against themselves.

But in his reaction to the incident,  Alhaji Adekunle Lawan alias Kunle Poly said the NURTW Lagos State Chairman, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya  alias MC Oluomo was behind the crisis on the Island.

He said he was out of Lagos when the crisis started, but immediately the information about the clash got to him, he had to return to Lagos.

“A lot of my boys have been killed for refusing to be part of them, today makes it four years when hired assassins were sent to kill me, unfortunately, my personal assistant was killed in the process. I have also done everything humanly possible to make peace with the State Chairman. I have also begged him in the presence of  Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Hakeem Odumosu.

“I don’t have a problem with anyone at my park, on December 8, 2021 we were with the governor, I have 19 units out of it, the State Chairman collected 12 units leaving seven units for me. Simply because I didn’t support him for his chairmanship ambition then, that I am loyal to former Chairman Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede,” he said.