Precious Duru & Favour Efughi
Harboursandport.com: Lagos--- Truck drivers this morning
burnt down branches of Diamond and Sterling bank along Creek Road following the
killing of their colleague named Tunde by a Police officer attached to Diamond
bank for refusing to part with N200.
The incident which accord at about 10.30 am this morning harboursandport.com
gathered resulted in pandemonium following sporadic shooting by men of the Nigerian Army and Nigerian
Police to scare away angry truckers who were still building in the vicinity.
Following the shooting, other truck drivers who parked their
trucks along the Creek Road besieged the bank by demanding that the policeman
be handed to them. Other colleagues of the policeman at the bank refused to
produce the police man and this infuriated the angry truckers who poured petrol
on the bank and set it ablaze.
The policeman ran out about 400 meters away from the
scene of the accident to take refuge at sterling bank. The angry mob chased him
there demanding that the policeman be released to them but his fellow police
officers refused to release him again resulting to the setting ablaze of the second
bank.
That was before one of the truckers who was pouring
petrol on the bank building was said to have been shot dead by one of the
police officer on guard at the bank.
On seeing the flames some staff of sterling bank scaled
through the fence into a neighbouring company Bolore, shipping company
resulting in the attack and destruction of properties and about 10 cars parked
in front of the company because the company was suspected to be sheltering the
police officer.
A source at the venue said that the banks were also
looted by the truckers.
However, an official of Diamond bank said that the truck
driver had parked in front of the bank and that the policeman had asked to move
front the front of the bank. The bank official said the truck driver with the
truck number (AGL222XC) actually drove his truck from the front of the bank
only to return to confront the police.
Another source told Harboursandport.com that the body of
the deceased had since been deposited at the Apapa General Hospital.
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