Commercial motorcycle operators, popularly called Okada
drivers, yesterday, razed students’ quarters, Zion hostel, behind NITEL
office in Gwagwalada area council following a disagreement between the
students and an operator.
According to Leadership, an eye witness, Innocent Oguejiofor, a final
year student of the University of Abuja (Unibuja), said a student
staying in the hostel had a minor disagreement with an okada operator
over change, saying the bike man went back and called his friend to set
their hostel on fire.
He said: “An
okada man brought back one of our hostel inmate from the junction and
he gave the operator N1000, only for him to say he didn’t have change.
So, after a minor standoff between our friend and the operator he
borrowed N100 to pay the man.
“He left and came back
later with other bike operators to attack us; the police came and
arrested some of our friends and the bike men. When they left another
set of bike men came and started destroying rooms in the hostel and set
them ablaze.”
Oguejifor said the operators fled when the
students rushed to inform army men stationed at the checkpoint, close to
the junction, of the attack.
Another eyewitness, who didn’t want
her name in print, said she was very lucky to have removed her
belongings before they razed the house.
Lagos State Police Command had conducted a massive raid on commercial motorcycles operating within the state.
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