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helinues:
He lured one of my brothers with the excuse of helping him. When he was about to make his moves, the guy japa

He was killed during a protest staged by landlords to against alleged invasion of their property and constant harassment by the late him and his thugs.

Aleem26:
My Dad witnessed the incident that Monday, as he was trying to get off from a Keke ride to safety he got injured on his knee... close to Merit hospital

2cribz:
Tho I don't know him .but tories circulating as far back as 2011 till abt 2014 was he used to burst yahoo guys cos he was a dismissed officer,so if u fail to cooperate,he'd seize your house,car and even rap e u.

2cribz:
It was like a scene from a horror movie in Temidire area of Alagbado, Lagos on Monday as an angry mob hacked a dreaded land speculator, hotelier and suspected homosexual, Alhaji Tunji Rasaq Olaniyi a.k.a. Alhaji Gay, to death. Olaniyi, also known as Tunji Alaso, was until his death the owner of Tunji Alaso Hotels in the community.

It was alleged that until his death on that fateful day, Olaniyi, had used thugs and corrupt law enforcement agents to intimidate perceived opponents in the community. He was killed during a protest staged by landlords to against alleged invasion of their property and constant harassment by the late him and his thugs.

The placard-carrying landlords and community leaders had trooped out at about 10 am, chanting solidarity songs to condemn what they called “undue violent attacks” on residents by Olaniyi and his boys. They urged the Lagos State Government and law enforcement agents to save them from the hands of the demised land speculator.

To prevent a breakdown of law and order, men of the Alagbado Police Station, who came in two patrol vans, had to provide security for the protesters.

It was learnt that Olaniyi had moved into the community in the early hours of the day to supervise construction work on a building he was putting up on Alafia Street. It was at the construction site that news of the protest got to him.

He was said to have forcibly grabbed the land on which the building project was sited from its original owners.

How he was killed

The otherwise peaceful protest snowballed into violence at about 11.05 am when Olaniyi and a handful of his boys stormed the venue of the protest at Irepodun Junction, in a black space bus and started taking the protesters’ photographs.

The angry mob, made up mainly of youths, then mounted barricades on Moshalashi and Ibari roads and challenged Olaniyi for taking photographs during a protest against him. Olaniyi’s vehicle was smashed by the mob before he left the scene of the protest.

Olaniyi, as gathered, headed straight to Alagbado Police Station where he allegedly accused a senior police officer of conspiring with community leaders to stage the protest.

A source at the station, who did not want his name in print, said: “Tunji Alaso (Olaniyi) came here to accuse one of our bosses of complicity in the protest staged against him by landlords. He raised his voice in Yoruba, saying, “O ti dale mi, o ti gbabode (you have betrayed me, you have conspired against me)”. He allegedly stormed out of the station about 10 minutes later.

At about 11.40 am, Olaniyi returned to the scene with more of his boys and shot sporadically as protesters and other residents scampered into safety.

All hell was however let loose when one of the youths, Ganiu Adebayo a.k.a. Oludegun, was felled by bullets fired by the hoodlums.

With the killing of Adebayo, the cutlass-wielding youths became emboldened and pursued Olaniyi, who was by then being shielded by his armed thugs on Moshalashi Road.

Having caught up with him on the road, the angry youths shouted in Yoruba, “Oole sa lo; waa ku loni (you cannot escape, you must die today).

Olaniyi was said to have made a futile attempt to resist his attackers with the aid of his armed thugs. At a point, his boys abandoned him and fled the scene. The mob wasted no time in hacking him to death at about 11.45 am.

Olaniyi then fell in a pool of blood and wriggled in pain until he was ferried to two nearby private hospitals who rejected him. He later died as he was being taken to a public hospital.

His death unleashed palpable fear on the community as suspected hoodlums loyal to Olaniyi attempted to avenge his death. They smashed vehicles and attacked innocent residents around the AIT axis of Alagbado where Olaniyi lived and operated two hotels until his death.

The intervention of police and soldiers however restored normalcy in the community.

It was gathered that Olaniyi’s boys at about 8.30 am the following day, Olaniyi’s boys, all