Members of rival factions of the Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association (ACOMORAN) engaged in a violent clash that left several persons injured in Abeokuta on October 30, 2013, Wednesday.
Two
factions of the commercial motorcyclists, a.k.a. Okada riders, clashed
at the premises of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, where they were
engaged in a legal battle this day.
Scores
of civil servants and innocent bystanders in the area fled in different
directions to escape the violence as the feuding ACOMORAN members
freely used dangerous weapons, including guns, machetes and other
missiles against one another.
Sporadic
gunshots allegedly fired by the rival ACOMORAN members were said to
have attracted the attention of the state military anti-crime outfit,
Operation MESA, the police, operatives of the State Security Service and
the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
According
to the Punch, the crux of the matter was a suit filed by the former
Secretary of the association, Lateef Yekini, challenging his alleged
detention sometime ago by the ACOMORAN Chairman, Alhaji Shamsudeen
Apelogun.
The
Apelogun group had accused the former secretary of embezzling the
association’s funds totaling about N1m and subsequently invited the
police to investigate the matter.
A
free-for-all, however, ensued among the members of the two factions in
the court premises shortly after the case was adjourned till December 3.
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