‘Okada’ ticketing official allegedly kills rider over N400 daily levy
Scores of protesters stormed the Ibara police station on Tuesday over the death of a bricklayer identified as Ibrahim Raji.
Raji was part of the riders who were calling for an end to ticketing, which they described as “exploitation.”
Trouble, according to an eyewitness, started around 7.30a.m in the area, when a ticketing official with the Okada union, allegedly hit and killed the bricklayer with a charmed ring.
The suspect, simply identified as Sempe, was said to have attacked the victim for failing to pay the sum of N400 daily levy by commercial motorcyclists.
“They were both billed to meet at Iyana Gbangba in the morning and proceed to a building project site,” the eyewitness said.
“What happened was that he had an argument with the ticketing official who was demanding N400 ticket from him. My boss said he was not an Okada rider and will never pay such money. In the process, the tout punched him in the chest with a charmed ring.
“He fainted afterwards. The ticketing official and his colleagues at the scene said he (Ibrahim) was only pretending. But it was the TRACE (Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps) officers at the scene that rushed him to the hospital where doctors confirmed him dead,” he added.
