A chieftain of the All Progressives
Congress,(APC) and former chairman of Oshodi Local Government Area of Lagos
State, Mr Idris Bolaji Ariyoh has commended the state chairman of the National
Union of Road Transport workers (NURTW), Mr Tajudeen Agbede over the
reconciliation between Treasurer of the NURTW, Mr Musiliu Oluomo (MC) and
Adedigba Adepegba (Talo).
Adepegba had accused MC of plans to kill him because
of his association with late Rasaq Bello aka Hamburger.
Bello was killed in Shogunle area of Lagos in
the aftermath of the violence that rocked the community during the
councilorship primaries of Monday, May 30. He was buried on Friday, June 2.
Since the incident, Oshodi area had been
engulfed in violence leading to the state government's intervention. The state
had suspended the union and banned it from collecting levies in Oshodi area in
order to restore peace. Loyalists and friends of Hamburger had protested the
killing and appealed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris
to send independent investigators to probe the killing, alleging that nothing
came out of the investigation into the death of a former Union leader, S.C
Oluwo along the airport road last year.
Adepegba said of the three of them, he is the
only one remaining alive and there is also a conspiracy to also kill him like
the others. It was on the basis of this that Agbede called a peace meeting to
reconcile Adepegba with MC Oluomo, the treasurer of the union that Adepegba had
accused of being behind the assassination plot.
Ariyoh noted that Agbede had behaved like an
elder by reconciling the warring factions and hope that all the parties
involved would maintain the peace. "This is highly commendable and all the
parties that made this reconciliation possible should be commended. We should
all ensure that the calm and the peace we have now continue to reign. Nobody
gains anything with violence," he said.
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