Violence broke out in Ibadan on Tuesday following a clash between prison officials and commercial motorcycle operators (popularly called okada riders). The violence at the Agodi Gate area of the popular university town, according to reports, was in response to the alleged killing of a motorcyclist by a prison warder.
Eye witness accounts have it that the okada rider had an argument with prison officials who wanted the access route to the prison cleared but the situation degenerated into violence leading to a crisis in the area.
Thereafter, the police station at Gate was burnt allegedly by some angry motorcyclists.
According to Punch newspaper, the okada rider who sustained a gunshot wound is alive and receiving treatment, while security operatives led by the Joint security task force Operation Burst have taken over to restore normalcy in the area.
