Tragedy struck in the Egbe Idimu area of Lagos over the weekend, when a fast moving Private Sector Participant, PSP, truck, under the supervision of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, crushed an Okada man to death.
The victim who was identified as Lekan a commercial motorcycle rider popularly known as Okada was on his way to his newly-rented apartment to see his wife who is nursing a six-month-old baby at Council Bus Stop in the Egbe-Idimu, Local Council Development Area in Lagos when the incident happened.
According to an eyewitness account, the incident, which happened at about 7p.m. resulted into pandemonium as every Okada rider in the area went on rampage, attacking other motorists in anger.
Mr. Shehu Balogun who was at the scene said “the Okadaman was struggling with the PSP truck over right-of-way. One of the motor boys, who usually perched by the side and atop of the truck, in anger over the Okadaman’s daring act, made some derogatory remarks that reportedly, angered him. He abandoned his motorcycle by the side of the road with a television set he was taking to his newly-rented apartment, and gave a hot chase after the truck to attack the motor boy. He caught up with the truck and held the motor boy by the collar. While they were struggling, the Okadaman lost his grip and fell on the road. Unfortunately, the moving truck ran over him, crush his head. He was left in a pool of his blood, before policemen from Idimu Police Station came to remove the corpse.”
