The youths and the police have reportedly clashed over the killing of a bus driver in Edo state. The development grounded commercial activities on Akpakpava road and Second junction - One of the Hilux vans was said to have been set ablaze‎ during the incident Pandemonium on Tuesday, February 6, struck the third junction in Oredo local government area of Edo state as angry youths staged a protest over the alleged killing of a bus driver by a policeman. Punch reports that the ‎protest later turned violent and resulted in a clash between youths and some mobile policemen deployed in the scene.

Subsequent efforts by the security agents to calm the aggrieved youths proved abortive as ‎they (protesters) destroyed some operational vehicles of the police.

One of the Hilux vans was said to have been set ablaze‎. The development grounded commercial activities on Akpakpava road and Second junction, as traders close their shops and took cover. Meanwhile, it was earlier reported that a few number of students of Eastern Mediterranean University have reportedly protested the murder, chanting that they wanted justice of their friend, a 28-year-old Kennedy Taomwabwa. According to a report, Taomwabwa who originated from Nigeria was left dead after he was reportedly abducted by unknown people from the city center in the Turkish Cyprus's province of Famagusta. Turkish Cypriot police found his body near a pond outside of the city and detected he was killed after he was beaten up.

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