Lagos : See why Okada riders stoned businessman to death

Okada riders stone a businessman to death in Lagos state

Lagos : See why Okada riders stoned businessman to death

Okada riders have stoned a businessman to death in Lagos State.

The businessman who was identified as Yamah Usman, has been killed by a group of motorcyclists in the Elepe area of the Ikorodu North Local Government Area of Lagos State.

We gathered that the Okada riders, acted in reprisal and allegedly killed Yamah for using his vehicle to hit a partially sighted man around the Ikorodu Garage last Monday.

After hitting the partially sighted man, it was learnt that the Okada riders, out of annoyance, became violent towards Yamah, who reportedly zoomed off from the scene of the incident for fear of his life.

Angered by Yamah ‘s decision, the motorcyclists, who were said to be from the northern part of the country, mounted their motorcycles and gave the Edo State indigene a hot chase till he was intercepted around Elepe on the Ijede Road.

While one account said that the motorcyclists vandalised Yamah’s vehicle and stabbed him to death, another stated that the men stoned the victim to death in broad daylight.

A resident of the area, Segun Ogunyemi, while condemning the action of the motorcyclists, said that the partially sighted man was alive, adding that the suspects took the law into their own hands by killing Yamah.

He stated,

“Some motorcyclists stabbed a man to death on Monday. The man went to Ikorodu and on his way back, he hit someone with his vehicle and the victim fell, but did not die.

So, the motorcyclists trailed him from where he hit the person to Elepe, where there are potholes on the road.

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The man had to slow down because of the bad road and it was at that point that they got him. They smashed the windscreen of his vehicle, brought out their daggers, pulled the man out and stabbed him four times in his stomach and he died on the spot.

The police have taken the corpse to the mortuary.”

Yamah’s son, Abdulmalik, told news reporters that the Okada riders stoned his father to death, adding that his mother and siblings had been thrown into mourning and the family wanted justice to be served.

The 27-year-old said,

“My dad’s mechanic called me on Monday to inform me that he had been killed.

According to him, someone, who worked with my dad, informed him that he was driving and he hit a partially sighted man without knowing it.

So, while driving, he noticed that some motorcyclists were chasing him and on getting to Elepe, they caught up with him and he was killed.

The policemen, who were at the scene of the incident, said they gathered that the partially sighted man did not die, but suffered minor bruises.

My uncle even visited the point where my father hit the man and acted as if he was not a member of our family when he was interrogating a motorcyclist about the incident.

The motorcyclist said that my father was killed for no just cause, because the man he hit did not die.

The motorcyclists vandalised his vehicle, killed him and ran away.

When I saw his corpse, his head was swollen and had bruises. His limbs were also cut off.

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My mother and three siblings have been crying because my father was the breadwinner of the family. We want the government to help us get justice.”

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