Commercial motorcyclists, popularly called Okada, have reportedly attacked and beat up officers at the police station at the Oka-Akoko Southwest Area of Ondo State.
According to reports, the okada operators besieged the station after they accused the police officers of shielding a commercial driver who drove recklessly and destroyed the motorcycle of one of their colleagues.
The reports stated that the Okada drivers assaulted the police officers and seized a mobile telephone of a top police officer at the station.
VANGUIARD reports that the top police officer said the motorcyclists stormed the police station in search of a driver reportedly involved in an accident with a motorcyclist on Epinmi Road in the community.
“We were in the police station when we received a call that a fatal accident happened along Epinmi Road. So, we went there, took some to the hospital.
“Not quite long, we saw many people trooping to the station, demanding that they wanted to see the driver who hit the motorcyclist.
“We were trying to address the situation when they used sticks to beat our officers and snatched a phone.
“We tried to prevent them from causing mayhem but they were about 100 who trooped to the station, he said.
Another top Police officer at the station, said that two of the motorcyclists who attacked the station have been arrested.
VANGUARD also reported that the paramount ruler, Olubaka of Oka, Oba. Yusuf Adebori Adeleye, condemned the attack on the police Station.
source: Vanguard
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