Pandemonium in Ekiti as Robbers Kill Commercial Driver

Pandemonium in Ekiti as Robbers Kill Commercial Driver

DPO beaten as govt. summons security meeting

Olakiitan Victor in Ado Ekiti

There was pandemonium in Aramoko Ekiti, Ekiti West Local Government Area of Ekiti on Wednesday, as a driver of an 18-passenger bus owned by Lafe Ade Transport, Mr Toyin Philips , was killed by suspected highway robbers.

The bus was owned by the late Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Mr Omolafe Aderiye, who was assassinated in September, 2014 by unknown gunmen, which fuelled suspicion that the driver could have died under similar circumstance.

The incident, which happened few metres away from a police  checkpoint along Aramoko-Igede highway at about 7 am ,had  provoked members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, who  staged a protest against what they described as alleged police complicity in the robbery .

The visibly enraged drivers, according to reliable sources,  were said to have descended heavily on the Divisional Police Officer in the
Council, Mr Anthony Okpaleye, stripped him naked and destroyed two police vans during the rampage.