No fewer than five persons were feared dead and several
others injured in a renewed fight between political thugs in Ijora area of
Lagos, yesterday.
However, Police in Lagos said only one person died in the
fight. The Police gave the identity of the deceased as Lateef Abdullai.Report has it that trouble started two months ago after a
politician in the area gave an unspecified amount of money to some social
miscreants, who were his loyalists.Some of them, who claimed they were edged out in the
sharing, took to the streets, destroying property of their colleagues that
benefited from the largesse.
In a bid to calm the aggrieved persons, the politician was
said to have doled out additional cash to them, an action that, Vanguard gathered,
escalated the already tensed situation as those who did not benefit resorted to
the use of force.Demanded for their shares by force.Residents told Newsmen that the warring factions
had been attacking each another, in the process of which they unleashed mayhem
on innocent persons.Yesterday’s fight was reportedly a reprisal attack, which
involved tricycle operators on Gaskia Road, Ijora Badia.
Via.vanguard
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