Tuesday, October 12, 2010

NURTW crisis: Man, wife killed in Ibadan

The internal crisis in the Oyo State council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers came to the fore again in the midnight of Monday when a member identified as Olumide Oyelowo, and his wife, Yetunde, were killed by yet-to-be identified gunmen.

The couple was reportedly shot dead at their residence at Alalubosa, Molade area at Alakia Brewery in Ibadan, the state capital, at about 2am.

Sources said Yetunde was shot dead after the armed men killed her husband because she identified one of the assailants and screamed his name.

The deceased were said to have been left in the pool of their own blood.

It was gathered that the crries of the deceased’s children attracted neighbours to the scene.

The court-reinstated chairman of the union, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (Tokyo); and the former acting chairman, Alhaji Lateef Salako (Eleweomo), are accusing each other of masterminding the killings.

The deceased was said to be a known member of Salako’s faction but was being suspected by his colleagues to be sympathetic to the Akinsola’s group.

Read more:http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20101013417473

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