NURTW CRISIS: Police On Red Alert In Ijebu-Ode
A detachment of policemen has been stationed at the popular Lagos motor park in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, to prevent fighting among members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in the park.
P.M.NEWS observed about 100 policemen stationed at different areas in the park to avert fighting among the NURTW members, some of whom had earlier made bonfires with disused tyres on the road leading to the park.
A NURTW member, who pleaded anonymity, told P.M.NEWS that the crisis within the union was being fuelled by a branch chairman of the union and politicians in Ijebu-Ode.
“The crisis can be traced to a chairman of the union. Fighting erupted this morning among members but the quick intervention of the police halted it.
“Some traders at the park who were scared ran home. But normalcy has returned since the arrival of the police,†he narrated.
“Some politicians are behind the crisis. They want to influence the leadership of the union by imposing their men as key officers of the union,†he added.
He appealed to the politicians to face their business and allow the union members run the park.
When P.M.NEWS visited the motor park this morning, people were going in and out of the park, doing their businesses without molestation.
However, apart from the noticeable presence of policemen around the motor park, a police Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC, was stationed very close to the park.
—Biodun Onafuye
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