It Happened in Lagos: Four Killed, 27 Vehicles Destroyed in Rival Battle

Barely seven days after two rival gangs clashed at the Oshodi area of Lagos State, another clash by the same warring groups occurred yesterday, over battle for supremacy, which allegedly led to the death of five people.
The rival gangs, who belong to different oppositions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), were said to have resumed their fight over who controls the Oshodi area, known as a cash cow owing to the numerous motor parks sited there.

According to eyewitness account, Wednesday’s incident had been preceded by 

sporadic gunshots on Tuesday night.

Armed with dangerous weapons like guns, bottles and machetes, the rival gangs had 

stormed Oshodi en mass before they began to unleash mayhem on themselves and motorists.

The hoodlums were said to have vandalised and razed vehicles whilst the fight was going on and they even went as far as molesting innocent pedestrians who unknowingly walked into the tense scene.

Five persons whose identities were yet to be identified were gunned down, while several others sustained varying degrees of injuries as they attempted to scamper to safety when shooting started.

Whilst the clash lasted, all the shops in the area were shut down, while commercial bus drivers avoided the area in order to avoid their vehicles being vandalised.

The resultant effect was that pedestrians were stranded for hours because the commercial bus drivers had stayed away from Oshodi and its environs.
The tension was later doused by the deployment of soldiers from the 9 brigade of the Ikeja Cantonment, who were able to subdue the rival gangs.
However, to evade arrest, the hoodlums were said to have fled immediately the military stormed the area.