YORUBA YOUTHS PROTEST, DEMANDS NIGERIA BREAKUP
Among the dead were two schoolchildren, traders, artisans and residents.
A two-year-old boy, Andrew Daniel, was abducted by some hoodlums and taken away after his father, Igba, was attacked with machetes and left for the dead.
The PUNCH, which witnessed part of the
clashes as it unfolded, counted no fewer than 40 vehicles that were
either burnt or vandalised in the Agiliti area of Ketu.
Two churches and over 20 houses were
equally set ablaze and hundreds of residents rendered homeless in Maidan
community as a result of the violence which was said to have broken out
after a disagreement between some Yoruba and Hausa in the area.
Motorcycles, sewing machines and other working tools were also destroyed while some shops were looted andCorpses
of slain residents, who were either burnt or beheaded, littered the
roads as of 5pm when one of our correspondents left the battle areas.
Despite the heavy presence of security
personnel, the hoodlums, mostly Hausa, who wielded bows, arrows,
cutlasses, charms and stones, refused to vacate the roads.
They also attacked the Lagos State
Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who tried to calm them down
before leaving the community around 1pm.
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