Okada rider stabs RTEAN chairman to death over N100 ticket

It was a black Sunday for the residents of Shora Street in Ondo town as the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) boss was stabbed to death by a commercial motorcyclist over N100 union receipt. The victim was identified as Ebenezer Adedeji and the branch chairman of the RTEAN in the area.

The deceased was said to have asked the Okada rider to pay a mandatory N100 daily official receipt for the day and the suspect who was said to have been engaged in a heated argument with other RTEAN officials before the deceased intervened warned Adedeji to steer clear or be dealt with.

The Okada operator, it was gathered, abandoned his motorcycle at the park ran to his house which was a stone throw to the scene of the incident and came back few minutes later with cutlass. The deceased was said to have left the park to attend a RTEAN meeting nearby. The suspect who appearently knew the deceased’s whereabouts headed to place and laid ambush for him nearby. It was gathered that the Okada rider beat all the security manned by members of the union, entered the venue of the meeting and on sighting his victim, descended on him heavily with the cutlass.

The suspect, it was learnt, was dealing deadly blows as his victim was running for safety. The deceased was said to have fallen down with several machete cuts all over his body with blood oozing out from the deep cuts. Other union members and traders in the area who later overpowered the Okada man sent distress call to the police at Enuowa Police Station. The policemen who arrived early enough saved the Okada rider from being lynched while the deceased was said to have died on his way to the hospital.

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of the station, David Ehighale, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) who confirmed the incident said the suspect had been transferred to state CID Homicide Section at the Command Headquarters in Akure.