MC Oluomo responsible for Idumota clash where four boys were killed’- NURTW chief alleges
See video of part of the clash
A chieftain of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Adekunle Lawan, alias Kunle Poly, has alleged that the Lagos State Chairman of the union, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, better known as MC Oluomo, is behind the crisis within the union on the Island.
Recall that trouble broke out on the island on Thursday and Friday between two factions of the union culminating in an open clash involving the use of guns, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons.
Video clips of the clash went viral on Friday, with one of the clips showing a bloodied youth being carried away in a wheelbarrow.
Another clip showed the moment a young man was hacked down by his opponents and then carried away by his own team.
Lagos State Police Command later said that a combined team of police and other security agents was deployed to Idumota and its environs on Lagos Island to quell the crisis.
The Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said, “The police have quelled the crisis. Sufficient facilities were deployed in the area immediately we received a distress call and normalcy was restored. As we speak, the place is calm. I can’t confirm if any arrest was made for now or the cause of the fight. An investigation is ongoing.”
However, Kunle Poly, in an interview with Daily Independent, said the NURTW Lagos State Chairman, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya was behind the crisis on the Island.
He claimed he was not in Lagos when the crisis erupted and he had to return quickly the moment he heard.
“A lot of my boys have been killed for refusing to be part of them, today make it four years 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 Alhaj Tajudeen Agbede,” he said.
