Femi Ashekun/
One person has reportedly died during a clash between the police and commercial motorcyclists, popularly called okada, in Abule Egba area of Lagos State yesterday.
According to the spokesman for the police in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the incident resulted from a minor accident involving a private vehicle owner and an okada rider.
A statement by Hundeyin reads, “After a minor accident involving a car and a motorcycle occurred on the Abule-Egba Bridge at about 1630hrs today, motorcycle riders in their numbers started fomenting trouble.
“Police arrived on the scene to quell the unrest. The riders violently attacked the Police. This resulted in the death of one of the riders.
“Normalcy has been restored to the area. The DPO Oko-Oba and his men are fully on ground to forestall any breakdown of law and order.”
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