By David Kabiyesi
It was a horrible sight to behold in Lagos on Wednesday as Nigerian Police joined forces with armed to-the-teeth Agberos to unleash mayhem on drivers protesting against indiscriminate hikes of taxes by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).
iwitnesslive.com gathered that officers from the Alagbado police command opened fire on drivers who embarked on a peaceful protest against illegal increments of daily tax in the state.
One of the drivers who pleaded anonymity confirmed to the press that the Police were ordered by the Agberos to open fire on them.
“We were all at Agbado Kola protesting that we would not work if the agberos did not get off our backs when Azeez Abiola, one of the agbero leaders, arrived,” the driver said.
“He addressed us and we all agreed we needed to stop being slaves to the agberos. Thirty minutes later, the police who had been monitoring the protest came and began to shoot at us on the order of the agberos.
“They fired teargas canisters and everyone started running. We were not fighting or obstructing traffic. They just started shooting at us because they thought we were helpless.”
He further stated that the team of police officers was led by a policeman who was followed by a mob of agberos with machetes.
“The policeman who shot at us is known as Yaro. He is the SO of the Alagbado police station. The agberos also went to reinforce in Kola. They chased us into the streets with cutlasses,” the driver said.
“What do the agberos want from us? They won’t allow us to work and won’t even allow us to protest in peace. We work for them to eat and they still want to kill us.
