Imagine how many people have lost their lives, seperate from Boko Haram

(Reuters) - Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria's Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman said, and police said mobile units had been sent to the state to quell the violence.

The clashes erupted from a long running rivalry between the Ezza and Ezilo people of Ishielu district that periodically flares up.

There was no suggestion it had anything to do with wider security problems in the country stemming from a violent Islamist insurgency that set off a wave of deadly bombs on Christmas Day.

But they are likely to add to President Goodluck Jonathan's mounting security woes at a time when his forces are stretched.

"Up to 60 people died in the violence. It is difficult to give the exact figure because when we visited Ezilo community, which was the scene of the incident today , villagers were still bringing out corpses," Ebonyi state spokesman Onyekachi Eni told Reuters by telephone. "Fifty corpses were shown to us."

Violent disputes over land are common in Africa's most populous country because the majority of its 160 million people are subsistence farmers living in rural areas with few means of arbitrating disputes.

Hundreds of people are killed every year in such clashes, many going unreported because of a lack of reliable information about them.

State Commissioner of Police Adeola Adeniji said the divisional crime officer for the area was killed in the violence. "Mobile police have been sent there and the inspector general has directed more to come," Adeniji said.

Chioma Oke, an Ezilo who survived the clashes, said they started around 5 a.m.

"We heard sporadic gunshots and we began to run. They burned our houses. They said they were retaliating for an attack on them last year," she said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/31/us-nigeria-clashes-idUSTRE7BU0H020111231

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/31/us-nigeria-clashes-idUSTRE7BU0H020111231

East Nigeria clashes kill at least 50: state government


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I hope jonathan can extend his state of emergency to iboland too.And these are people that claimed to belong to the same ethnic group ? This is madness.

^^^^
Like Ife and Modakeke, right? You are so shameless. Bloody hypocrit.

Ife and modakeke had long been resolved but this particular ibo tribes are always killing themselves after several resolution .why ?

~Bluetooth:


Ife and modakeke had long been resolved but this particular ibo tribes are always killing themselves after several resolution .why ?

Did Ife people kill 100s of Modakeke people and vice versa? Answer or keep your hypocritical mouth shut.

Bluetooth, how many times have the problem of the NURTW being resolved in the whole Yaribaland and they still kill themselves till today?


Night of terror in Ibadan: •20 feared dead in NURTW clash •50 vehicles vandalised; 20 shops razed •25 NURTW members arrested - Police •Govt may proscribe union today

Written by Adebayo Waheed and Dare Adekanmbi Monday, 06 June 2011

NO fewer than 20 people, among them a pastor, were killed with several others sustaining gunshot injuries in a renewed clash between members of the factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Ibadan, Oyo State, in the early hours of Sunday.

Also, about 20 shops were razed down while 30 others were looted and vehicles numbering 50 were vandalised by union members during the clash which lasted five hours.

Most of the victims were said to be passengers, who were waiting for night buses at the Total petrol station on the Ibadan-Ife road.

An eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that the people were taken unawares by the NURTW members, led by Mr Mukaila Lamidi, also known as Auxiliary, who was said to have gone to reclaim the motor park, which was taken over by members loyal to Alhaji Lateef Akinsola Oluwatoki, also known as Tokyo, last Monday.

It will be recalled that last Monday, a faction of the union, led by Tokyo, had clashed with the other faction at the Iwo road interchange, during which one person was killed and 10 others sustained injuries.

Eyewitnesses disclosed that the hoodlums had arrived at the motor park around 11.45 p.m. and started shooting sporadically at the filling station, during which people were killed and others injured.

It was learnt that 33 people were taken to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan and that 14 had been discharged.

A police source told the Nigerian Tribune that causality was more than last Monday’s.

“Where were journalists when the corpses were still on the ground?” a policeman had asked.

When Nigerian Tribune visited the Iwo road interchange during the clash, some of the shops torched were still smouldering.

An official of the state fire service, Mrs Olunike Olayinka, said they received distress call around 9.30 a.m. and by 10.00 a.m., when they arrived, the shops were still burning.

According to her, 20 shops were burnt with property worth millions of naira destroyed in the inferno.

She said that the arrival of fire-fighters halted the spread of the fire to the adjourning shops at the park.

No fewer than 50 mobile policemen with eight patrol vehicles and four Armoured Personnel Carriers were on the ground to restore, law and order.

At the time of filing this report, mobile policemen had taken over the control of the park while both human and vehicular traffics were being checked, as people were being ordered to raise their hands.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Oyo State Police Command, SP Olatunji Ajimuda, who confirmed the clash, said that about 25 members of the union had been arrested in connection with the incident.

Speaking on the number of people allegedly killed, he said he was not aware of the number of those killed but that some people were taken to the UCH.

Meanwhile, state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, on Sunday, said his administration might reconsider proscribing the state chapter of the NURTW in the interest of peace in the state.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/23075-night-of-terror-in-ibadan-20-feared-dead-in-nurtw-clash-50-vehicles-vandalised-20-shops-razed-25-nurtw-members-arrested-police-govt-may-proscribe-union-today

Abeg dont derail the thread,it's about two ibo groups killing themselves like iraqis.If you want to revise ife/modakeke crisis,feel free to open another thread.btw,how many people have died so far ?

Based on your first post, everything will be on the table, including the 100s of [b]Yoruba-on-Yoruba [/b]killings in your motor park tout fights all over the SW states even after 100s of reconciliatory meetings.

Who be Tokyo and Eleweomo again sef? Mo-ron.

Touts (Yoruba) And NURTW (Yoruba) Are Fighting In Lagos - many dead

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-715739.0.html


More to come

You seem to be provoked ? Meanwhile,you are yet to tell me why these people are killing themselves like sunnis and shites of iraq !

Why are Yoruba touts killing Yoruba NURTW?

Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria's Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman said, and police said mobile units had been sent to the state to quell the violence.

Wow. All this wahala in Nigeria. . .

Look at this despicable clown trying to kill himself just to prove a redundant point about other people. He's not even worried about his own people who are still dying as we speek, but he's troubled about some ancient history about other people.

It's always the same tribal defend the tribe first by any means necessary.

Still waiting for mr jonathan to extend his state of emergency to these ibo terrorist.Sooner or later,they will bombing themselves like their northern counterparts.

What is the origin of the dispute though? Ife-Modakeke I know a tiny bit about (a nearly 200 year issue), but this one is news to me.

ekt_bear:

What is the origin of the dispute though? Ife-Modakeke I know a tiny bit about (a nearly 200 year issue), but this one is news to me.

Fighting over desert land.bloody mor-ons !

~Bluetooth:

Fighting over desert land.bloody mor-ons !

You mean Ife fought Modakeke over desert land right?
You are right I have been there; such a drab God-forsaken place.

Yoruba on Yoruba killing

IKEJA – Three persons were feared dead, yesterday, as factions of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, battled for control of a motor park at Mafoluku/Airport Road area of Lagos State, leaving several others with severe injuries.

The clash, which grounded vehicular activities on the ever-busy Airport Road, leading to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, lasted for hours, as hoodlums from Mafoluku-Oshodi, stormed 7 and 8 Bus-Stop, on Airport Road, in a bid to take over the park and unleash terror.

Vanguard gathered that efforts by the invading hoodlums to take over the park sparked off violence, as they met stiff resistance which degenerated to a free-for-all.

Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the warring factions fought themselves with dangerous weapons , while several vehicle windscreens were shattered.

A roadside mechanic, Jide Babalola, who spoke with Vanguard on the incident, said hoodlums from Mafoluku-Oshodi area, who were allegedly led by members of Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, stormed the area about 9 a.m. yesterday, in a bid to take over the park.

He said: “They came this morning with dangerous weapons to take over the park at 7 and 8 Bus-Stop, but the union there refused to relinquish it and fought back.

“We learnt that the people from Mafoluku-Oshodi, who attacked this park today have been asking for a share of proceeds from this park and they couldn’t get it.

“I think that may have necessitated the forceful takeover of the park,” he added.

One Charles, a motorcycle operator, said: “I saw several people with injuries while the fight was on and about three of them lying motionless in blood. But, it was the police that ended the fight.”

Lagos State Police Command Spokesman, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, said normalcy had been restored to the area.

He said: ” Policemen from Akinpelu, Mosafejo and Makinde were drafted swiftly to the area and they have restored normalcy; the roads are free and people are going about their business peaceful.”

Jinadu , who could not confirm the number of casualties, said the case was under investigation

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/3-feared-dead-over-control-of-lagos-park/

[b]Recurring [/b]violence by drivers’ union
Friday, 09 December 2011 00:00 Editor Opinion - Editorial

Tokyo

IN a space of six months between June and November this year alone, the country lost no fewer than 30 lives to the violent activities of some lawless motor park operators under the cover of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). The pervasive air of terror unleashed at will by rival gangs, amid greater terror in the country by the Boko Haram group, is in part a commentary on the value the touts place on human lives and the capability of relevant law enforcement agencies to fully and comprehensively address challenges of insecurity in the land. Nonetheless, it is time the authorities stopped the lawlessness of the NURTW men, to save law-abiding citizens who are often victims of such violence, and to enthrone a regime of peace and order at motor parks.

More often than not, the recurring mindless violence stems from the struggle for control of the motor parks by rival union groups who are motivated by the huge cash benefits from park fees and extortions by union officials daily. The temptation to crush any challenge to the constant flow of the non-taxable, easy money is high. Elections into union offices are akin to going to war. This should not be permitted.

On June 6 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital alone, 20 deaths were reportedly recorded in a single incident of motor park terror, causing untold sorrow to many families whose relations were caught in the crossfire along the Iwo Road major park. That followed closely on the violence recorded a week earlier on May 30, with many seriously injured. Scores of vehicles were torched on both occasions.

The wave of violence shifted to neighbouring Ogun State in October where at least three casualties were reported in the clash for control of Ifo town garage. By November 1, the Epe motor park in Ijebu-Ode boiled over to send the city into turmoil - the result of another union gang rivalry, which again cost three lives, two of them innocent passers-by. Two weeks later, tempers flared again in Sango Ota in a dawn mayhem that paralysed movement and all commercial activities, well into the day. At the end of the saga, four persons lay dead before the police rallied to restore normalcy.

By statistics, Lagos has no clean record on this matter because the mega city has had its fair share of destruction, maiming and deaths similar to these recent clashes especially at the notorious Oshodi parks. That sector seems to be the biggest around, as enormous cash is raised for union officials at the parks.

Unfortunately, the activities of the touts and officials or backers cannot be divorced from their hobnobbing with politicians and some police officers who give cover, and who fail to diligently prosecute for murder and breach of public peace. A governor and a former police commissioner in Oyo State were for instance openly accused of supporting the activities of an influential NURTW factional leader. A rival union leader lost his life in a gruesome manner in the power-play. Such bestiality is against norms and values in civilised climes and stands condemned.

There may be some decent and focused leaders in the union but so far, the image of the NURTW has been uncomplimentary. A union whose members regularly operate like organised thugs against the common good of the society, and against acceptable trade unionism ethos should be called to order. NURTW’s numerical strength should never be a deterrent to decent behaviour by the membership.

Unionism having come a long way in the country, its aim should primarily be for the advancement of the welfare of members, and not to promote anti-social behaviours. Union leaders ought therefore to curb the ills identified or associated with their members. The exhibited characteristics of touting, extortion, violence and gangster-like activities should not be identified with a serious union.

Passengers of commercial vehicles have a right to be transported safely to their destinations as a binding contract. Two, the parks are not killing fields for residents. Three, elections into union offices, or any office, should not be a life and death affair. The leaders have the obligation to cooperate with law enforcement agents to rid their union of bad eggs.

Police should fully assume their interventionist role to maintain peace at the parks and to prevent outbreak of violence, through intelligence units. States and local councils also have onerous task to ensure that law and order is maintained in their domains. They should stop being complicit in drivers’ unions affair, while erring unionists should promptly and diligently be prosecuted.
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http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/3-die-another-nurtw-clash-ogun

3 die in another NURTW clash in Ogun
The fracas, which erupted at Epe Motor Park, involved factional leaders identified as Aweda and Efele
Article | November 2, 2011 - 10:58am | By Funso Ajewole

A renewed clash between rival leaders of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, has left three people dead.

The fracas at the Epe Motor Park[b] yesterday, [/b]which came barely five days after three people lost their lives in an earlier clash, was said to involve factional leaders identified as Aweda and Efele, who are in a battle for supremacy.

According to a report, the violence was a reprisal attack carried out by one of the factions, in a bid to avenge the death of one of its supporters allegedly killed in an earlier rivalry clash.

The state's Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muytiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident, said the Commissioner of Police, Nicholas Nkemdeme, had ordered all Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and Area Commanders in the state, to deploy security agents to parks and garages.

Adejobi, who said investigations are ongoing, confirmed the death of two non-NURTW members and one member of the NURTW (Gbenga Odubona).

http://www.nigeriadailynews.com/latest-additions/31256-20-feared-killed-in-ogun-nurtw-clash.html

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Amosun orders 30 APCs as banks close shops over robbery threats

NO fewer than 20 people were feared killed yesterday morning in Sango-Ota, Ogun State, as two opposing factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) turned the boisterous town to a theatre of war over the control of the Sango Motor Parks.

Yesterday’s mayhem occurred barely three weeks after a similar incident in Ifo and Ijebu-Ode, which claimed the lives of six people, leading to the disbandment of the NURTW in Ijebu-Ode. A few days before then, there had been a similar clash between factions of the union in Ijebu-Igbo in which lives were also lost.

The Sango clash came just 24 hours after an Abeokuta State High Court struck out an application challenging the conduct of a proposed election by a faction of the union in the state.
Also, following last Thursday’s fatal robbery incidents at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, and a deep-seated feeling of insecurity, banks in that university community and across major towns in Ijebu area of the state have shut their doors against their customers for three working days, starting last Friday.

The Guardian learnt that the banks took the step on the advice of the State Police Command.

According to a banker in Ijebu Ode who asked not to be named, “the police told us to shutdown our operations pending the time the Ijebu Bankers’ Forum would meet with Governor Ibikunle Amosun to discuss the security situation in the whole of Ijebu area, which is now under siege by armed robbers.”

The situation has created a huge cash crunch problem for residents of Ijebu-Ode, Ijebu-Igbo and Ago-Iwoye as their funds are trapped in the banks, whose ATMs have also ran dry.

Meanwhile, Amosun has pledged to wage “total war on armed bandits” in the state.

He made the pledge yesterday while receiving leaders of the Ijebu Bankers’ Forum in Abeokuta, the state capital.

Consequently, the governor has ordered 30 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) to assist the police and other security operatives in combating armed banditry and other violent crimes in the state.

Ten of the APCs, according to a statement by Funmi Wakama, Senior Special Assistant (Media and Communication) to the governor, would soon arrive the state.

Amosun tasked security operatives in the state to be more active, stressing that the frequency of armed banditry in the state did “not speak well of the competence of the security men.”

Chairman, Ijebu Bankers’ Forum, Olusegun Olusoga, informed the governor of the security challenges facing their operations and appealed for government’s assistance.

Pandemonium broke out in Sango on Monday night when a faction of the union took steps to forcefully overthrow a faction of the NURTW in the town.

This met stiff resistance and clashes ensued all night, with sporadic gunshots.

Yesterday morning when the police doused the tension, 10 people have been killed. One of the victims’ remains were left under the Sango bridge, which is still under construction, in the pool of his own blood.

Scores of other people were seriously injured in the mayhem, including an employee of the construction giant, Julius Berger Plc, who was stabbed on the neck.

There were, however, conflicting figures of casualties as some said eight while others claimed the number had risen to 20.

When The Guardian visited the scene, commercial activities in the area was grounded, as shops were under lock and key. All the banks also locked out customers in the area.

Armed police personnel drafted to the scene frisked passersby who were ordered to raise their hands up as they passed on.

But despite the security beef-up, the fracas spread to the neighbouring Ogba Iyo in Ijoko, a suburb of Sango around 11.00 a.m. and residents of the area were forced to run for their lives.

When The Guardian visited the Sango Police Station to confirm the number of casualties, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) was reportedly on the field to monitor the situation.

The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident.

He said: “There was a minor fracas in the morning and it was caused by NURTW members over the control of the motor park, but the command has drafted its men to the scene.

“We are even sending more men there; we are sending additional 40 men to that place. We are trying to make some arrests. We must arrest some people for peace to reign in that place. That is what the command is trying to do now.”

On the number of casualties, Adejobi said: “I don’t know the number of casualties. For now, I don’t have the exact number. Nobody can say somebody is dead; a medical doctor has to certify. The CP has not given us the exact figure. We have deployed APC. Everybody should go about their lawful business.”

The Guardian learnt that the incessant clashes by the NURTW factions could not be unconnected with an alleged failure of the union leaders to conduct an overdue election for new leaders for the group.

According to sources, the tenure of the current union leaders in the state had expired, “but they have refused to conduct election for new leaders.”

For this, some aggrieved members of the union went to court and Judge Peter Onamade of the State High Court, Abeokuta, ruled that the union leaders whose tenure had ended should give up their positions for the conduct of fresh election to elect new leaders.

Nchara and bluetooth could you guys simply just drop the tribal bigotry and prefer solutions nicely without compounding the issue.Some folks are fighting over some issues and taking lifes,while you two simply remind us your own NL tribal impending battles and ranting.

All the SW states are fraught with deaths from motor park tout fights
Coming with the remaining states.

Nchara:

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/3-die-another-nurtw-clash-ogun

3 die in another NURTW clash in Ogun
The fracas, which erupted at Epe Motor Park, involved factional leaders identified as Aweda and Efele
Article | November 2, 2011 - 10:58am | By Funso Ajewole

A renewed clash between rival leaders of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, has left three people dead.

The fracas at the Epe Motor Park[b] yesterday, [/b]which came barely five days after three people lost their lives in an earlier clash, was said to involve factional leaders identified as Aweda and Efele, who are in a battle for supremacy.

According to a report, the violence was a reprisal attack carried out by one of the factions, in a bid to avenge the death of one of its supporters allegedly killed in an earlier rivalry clash.

The state's Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muytiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident, said the Commissioner of Police, Nicholas Nkemdeme, had ordered all Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and Area Commanders in the state, to deploy security agents to parks and garages.

Adejobi, who said investigations are ongoing, confirmed the death of two non-NURTW members and one member of the NURTW (Gbenga Odubona).

Accept the problem in Ebonyi for what it is , tribal violence.

Why are you so defensive, I am also Igbo, this is a tragedy of immense proportions !!!!

frosbel:


Accept the problem in Ebonyi for what it is , tribal violence.

Why are you so defensive, I am also Igbo, this is a tragedy of immense proportions !!!!

If a non-ibo tries to tell him,he seees it as bigotry but unfortunately,a lot of people are being killed.shame on nchara.

Frosbel

I have no problem addressing the problem in Ebonyi
I have  a problem with this in bold coming from a know bigot such as bluetooth.

I hope jonathan can extend his state of emergency to iboland too.And these are people that claimed to[b] belong to the same ethnic group ?[/b] Huh This is madness.

This Day (Lagos)
Nigeria: NURTW, RTEAN Clash in Ado-Ekiti

Toba Suleiman


Ado-Ekiti — One person was feared dead, while several others sustained various degrees of injuries yesterday, during a clash between members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), over control of a new motor park in the state capital.

The new motor park was said to have been built by Ado-Ekiti Local Government for RTEAN members, who were not operating in any park.

Are they not ibos ? Yes or No !

Are the thousands of Yoruba people killed in all the SW states by Yoruba motor park touts not Yoruba, yes or no?

When they start bombing themselves,i'm sure you'd see the truth in what frosbel has said.There is no point being defensive when two ibo tribes are killing themselves over desert land.

The bomb is already at your backyward
YORUBA NURTW fights YORUBA touts with bombs. Even a blind malu knows that.