CITIZENS COMPASS—Some motor parks in Osogbo, Osun State, were on Sunday, greeted with tension following the killing of a former unit chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers(NURTW), Kazeem Oyewole.
Reports said he was killed in the afternoon by some suspected hoodlums yet to be identified.
Oyewole was the Union chairman in the Aregbe area of the State between 2018 and 2022.
The death caused tension following speculations of a reprisal attack.
It was learnt that some hoodlums set up a base around Elelede Junction and were extorting people under the guise of raising funds for a proposed carnival.
A source which pleaded anonymity said, “While that was going on, a motorcycle carrying two people arrived at the scene and those hoodlums forced the two passengers to disembark. “They started fighting those passengers. I heard gunshots. They later identified one of the two persons that were attacked as Kazeem.
“Later, they brought big stones and smashed the head of a man identified as Kazeem. He died on the spot. The other person however escaped from the scene of the attack with an open wound. After the incident, the hoodlums fled before Police would arrive at the scene,” the resident said.
A shop owner at Elelede Junction, identified simply as Basira, said few businesses that opened for operations in the area had to hurriedly shut down when the crises started.
“The person that was killed was identified as Kazeem Oyewole by some NURTW people that came after the incident. He was said to be former part-time chairman of NURTW unit along Osogbo/Gbongan road in Aregbe Area.”
Spokesperson, Osun State Police Command, Abiodun Ojelabi, confirmed the killing saying,“We are aware of the incident that happened at Orita Elelede (Osogbo), and we deployed our men to the place immediately information got to us, but unfortunately, one person was confirmed dead. He was identified as Kazeem. Other names unknown. Investigation has commenced.”
Asked if the command was monitoring motor parks in the state to prevent escalation, Ojelabi said, “We are still monitoring the situation.
We are going to monitor the parks for now.”
—The PUNCH
