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The incident which started at about 8:00AM, residents and eye witnesses explain, saw Lekki Estate Shuttle drivers engage with Okada riders as a response to an earlier attack carried out by the latter the night before.
Mayhem visited Lekki Phase 1, Lagos on the morning of November 28, 2014 as bus drivers and unidentified men clashed with commercial motorcyclists (popularly called Okada riders), leaving many injured.
The entry route into the estate was blocked by rioters armed with machetes and other dangerous weapons, leaving many stranded outside, causing traffic along the Lekki Expressway.
The incident which started at about 8:00AM, residents and eye witnesses explain, saw Lekki Estate Shuttle drivers engage with Okada riders as a response to an earlier attack carried out by the latter the night before.
The unidentified men (who spoke in Yoruba language) carried cutlasses and blocked cars from driving through Durosimi Etti road. They burnt several motorbikes and attacked Hausa bike riders.
‘They can’t come here and attack us, we will find you and kill you’, one of the rioters shouted, wielding a cutlass. Gunshots were also fired and are believed not to be from the Nigerian Police Force.
In early November, the Lekki residents association placed a ban on commercial motorcyclists, making public announcements in the estate, explaining that both okada riders and passengers will be arrested if caught.
The whole incident might well be looked upon as an ethnic clash between Yoruba and Hausa tribes; most bus drivers are mainly of Yoruba extraction while the okada riders are of Hausa extraction.
The Nigerian Police Force conveniently avoided getting involved in the fracas. Pulse.ng reached out to the Nigerian Police Public Relations Office could not be reached as at the time of this report.
UPDATE
One person has been confirmed dead as a result of physical attack from rioters at the riot incident which took place earlier in the day. The deceased was carried away in a Nigeria Police Force truck.
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