Uproar in Ogun as truck crush okada rider to death

There is unrest in Ogun State after angry youths took to the street to protest the death of an okada rider who was crushed to death by a truck on the Lagos-Ibadan highway.

According to the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement (TRACE) Corps, the accident happened around Olowotedo, opposite Deeper Life, on the Lagos-Ibadan highway. The truck's plate number is XA 539 BBJ.

(TRACE) Spokesperson Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the incident said the road crash happened around 11 am.

It was gathered that a hit-and-run car had knocked down the motorcycle, marked WDE 415 VD, to the side of the moving truck, which Akinbiyi said, unknowingly crushed the rider to death.

“According to an eye witness, a hit-and-run car from behind hit the motorcyclist into the front of a moving truck, which ran over him and he died immediately,” he said.

The incident, he added, “created a pandemonium for some minutes along the express road, with area boys beating and hitting everyone in sight because the deceased Okada rider is a resident in the area.”

He spoke further that the driver of the truck had been arrested by policemen from Mowe Divisional Police Command.

The body of the deceased had been deposited at the morgue of Idera Hospital, Sagamu, DAILY POST learnt.