AS the killing spree continues between the two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers Union, NURTW, Oyo State Chapter, a loyalist of the reinstated Chairman of the union, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola, aka Tokyo, has allegedly been felled by police bullets when he could not give details of the whereabouts of the incumbent Chairman.
According to information gathered, Olasunkanmi was still full of life until he was allegedly accosted by one of the policemen on the entourage of the dismissed chairman, Alhaji Lateef Salako, to give information that would lead them to the chairman of the union.
But, when he was trying to be reluctant in providing answers to the questions put to him, the policeman was said to had got angry and shot him at close range yesterday.
His death triggered protest by some members loyal to the Chairman, Alhaji Akinsola, as they reportedly carried the remains of the deceased to their headquarters, Olomi, Ibadan.
Vanguard gathered that a supporter of the ex-chairman, 10 policemen, and others were in an unmarked jeep and two other buses when the attack happened.
Though, they immediately fled the scene when the man was killed, a source disclosed that another patrol vehicle of Police accosted the fleeing members of the union to get the gist of what transpired. They were reportedly arrested and moved to a police station at Idi-Aro.
The reinstated chairman told newsmen that the attack was meant to trigger another bloodshed but he would not allow any of his supporters to be involved in any reprisal attack.
He then appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to call the Oyo State Government to order to hands-off from the affairs of the union, adding that he would ensure that his own side maintained law and order.
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