By SAM POPOOLA, Lagos
Two Okada riders on Tuesday were crushed to death against the midian by a Dangote Cement truck at Imowo Eleran along Ibadan road, Ijebu Ode, few hours to the New Year 2020.
TheCaveat.info gathered that the crushing of the Okada rider and his passenger infuriated sympathisers who immediately set ablaze the Dangote truck.
According to an eyewitness account the sympathisers who had been joined by some hoodlums started stopping all approaching Dangote trucks and succeeded in burning up to four of such trucks in the process.
It was however learnt that the drivers and their motor boys who ran into the bush narrowly escaped being lynched by their attackers.
TheCaveat.info gathered that the terrible accident occurred when the Okada riders tried to overtake, wrongly, the Dangote truck which was on a high speed.
TRACE Ijebu-Ode Divisional Commander, Sonde Idowu Olubori, who confirmed the story told our correspondent said that the quick intervention of TRACE, FRSC, and Police Operatives rescued the situation.
"I can assure you normalcy has returned in the area, action has been taken in controlling traffic around the scene and papa Oscar (police) have carried corpses to general hospital morgue Ijebu Ode.
"Traffic affected one lane, and those hoodlums didn't allowed papa Oscar to tow the remains of burning Dangote truck up till now" the Divisional Commander told TheCaveat.info.
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