The Mile-2 -Apapa Expressway has been a battle field since Monday 11th October 2021 leaving residents, commuters and passers-by in fear with Gun shots flying the air at intervals especially at night
On Wednesday night, October 13th 2021 the mayhem broke out causing pandemonium in the area as a serious gun battle happened amongst the unions fighting.
According to reports reaching Festaconline Media, The two warring transport union members engaged in a free-for-all at Mile 2 area, along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, over control of collection of fees from trucks plying the axis.
The unions, Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, and National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW.
It was reported that three RTEAN members were shot dead on Wednesday night by armed men suspected to be members of the National NURTW.
However, the two unions have been summoned by Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, to an emergency meeting holding on Friday.
The armed NURTW members were said to have invaded the RTEAN park at about 9.15pm in an ongoing violent clash over toll collection from truck drivers in the Apapa ports.
According to a source, an earlier attack on Tuesday reportedly left 15 RTEAN members with gunshot injuries at the Tin-Can First gate and Fagbems Gas station on the Apapa/Oshodi Expressway.
It was gathered that before now, RTEAN issued ticket to its members who are truck drivers, but NURTW was said to have allegedly forced its way into the toll collection from truck drivers. In the process, NURTW was said to have increased the price to N2000.
The source said RTEAN was said to have kicked against NURTW’s involvement, as it argued that NURTW had never been part of the toll collection from onset and that truck drivers were members of RTEAN.
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