Angry drivers claim conflict on fayose over arrest of colleague who tries to knock Governor down

Contributors of nurtw battled each other for several hours in ado ekiti the day gone by.
Visitors, commercial and social sports have been paralysed even as commercial enterprise centres and colleges were shut.
The economic drivers moved from one area to another, attacking innocent citizens and detrimental motors.
The drivers, who started the assaults on monday, had been protesting the detention in their colleague, ahmed kolo, allegedly on the order of governor ayo fayose.
Kolo was remanded in jail custody on september 27, following his arraignment at an ado ekiti magistrates’ court docket for allegedly attempting to knock fayose down with his car.
He become brought to court docket once more on monday however the court docket extended his remand.
This angered his colleagues, who claimed to have made representations to the governor on behalf of the detained motive force.
The indignant drivers declared war on fayose, threatening unrest till kolo is launched.
The ado-ikere road became blocked for hours on monday nighttime and cars.
The drivers blocked the street at assumpta vicinity, which precipitated traffic gridlock.
Participants of nurtw persevered their violent protest early the day gone by.
Residents on their way to work and schools turned again as suspected hoodlums blocked the highway at akure motor park.
The drivers shot into the air and wielded guns, inclusive of cutlasses, axes, bottles and charms, as they hurled stones at rebel policemen deployed to quell the crisis.
They positioned fetish items, broken bottles, large stones and other gadgets on the road.
The drivers chanted anti-fayose songs. They lit bonfires at ajebamidele, akure motor park, ijigbo roundabout, matthew junction, okeyinmi, ajibade motor park, irona, atikankan and oke ila.
Motorists and motorcyclists took opportunity routes; many plied erosion-damaged roads.
Citizens have been in panic as gunshots had been heard at ijigbo, ajilosun and akure motor park.
Investors hurriedly closed their stalls and fled when they heard gunshots fired with the aid of the drivers.
Erekesan and bisi markets were quick deserted.
Thick smoke from tyres used for bonfires billowed into the sky.
The ones passing through the “warfare sector” at akure motor park had been made to raise their hands via rebellion policemen.
An nurtw member stated certainly one of its participants become shot with the aid of the police at ajilosun.
He did now not monitor the name of the health center the victim became taken to.
The motive force said:

“One of us was shot at Ajilosun, close to Fayose Market. There is no way we won’t avenge the killing. We are going to burn a police station, if that boy dies.”

Mrs. Florence Olukolade, a younger sister to the Founder/Chancellor of Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola, told our reporter that the commercial drivers damaged her Toyota Avensis car, registered as (Ondo) AKR 657 FW.
Mrs. Olukolade said the drivers forcibly removed her car key and fled after the vehicle was vandalised.
According to her, the hoodlums damaged six vehicles in her presence.
She said: “At 11.30 am today (yesterday), I was coming from Akure and I saw a row of vehicles. We wanted to turn back but the policemen passed our vehicle. The next thing was that those boys just came and ordered us to stop.
“They ordered us to surrender the car key and, my son, who was driving, surrendered the key. They were pushing us, threatening to shoot us. There was a man they wanted to stab with a cutlass.
“In the course of the confusion, I began to run into a nearby house. I fell down and I was injured. About six vehicles, including mine, were damaged: their windscreens were smashed. The protesters went away with our keys.
“I reported the incident at Ologede Police Station on Ikere Road.”
Addressing reporters, Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Dr. Modupe Alade said the NURTW leadership had contacted the governor to resolve the crisis.
She said the detained driver was rude to the governor and refused to apologise.
This, the SSG said, was the reason he was arrested and taken to court for traffic offence.
Mrs. Alade said: “This driver drove recklessly against the convoy and he was arrested. Rather than apologise, he was rude to the governor. The governor asked him and his colleagues to apologise, but they refused.
“The governor, as a no-nonsense person, won’t tolerate any threat from anybody; not until he apologises, he won’t be released.”
Police spokesman Alberto Adeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), refuted the claim of the NURTW men that one of them was shot.
Adeyemi said: “Let me make it clear: nobody was shot by our men, and we have not even arrested anybody.
“We are dialoguing with the leadership of the drivers’ unions and we are sure the matter will be resolved soon.”

[THE NATION]

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