Barely a month after Fulani herdsmen killed Brig. Gen. Sylvester K. Iruh (retd) on the long bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the hoodlums struck again on Monday night and stabbed a commercial motorcycle rider, also known as okada rider with a dagger.
The intestines of the
victim bulged out of the stomach after the attack and doctors are trying to save his life.
P.M.NEWS learnt that the victim, Mr. Owolabi Habib, gave a ride to two Fulani herdsmen on Monday night from Berger to the cattle market adjacent the long bridge.
Owolabi was stabbed by one of the Fulani herdsmen he had carried on his okada.
He was rushed to the Lagos State Accident and Trauma Centre at old Tollgate.
As a result of his critical condition, P.M.NEWS gathered that he was referred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, for intensive care and doctors at the hospital are still battling to save his life.
While Owolabi is being treated at the Emergency section of the hospital, his family members are seriously praying for him to survive.
There had been several attacks on travellers on that bridge in the recent past.
On Saturday 7 July, 2012, Brigadier-General Iruh was killed on the bridge by those suspected to be Fulani herdsmen as he attempted to fix his car tyre.
He was returning from Ilorin, Kwara State when his car had a flat tyre on the bridge.
As he attempted to fix the flat tyre with the help of some of his church members in his vehicle, he was alerted by a concerned motorist, an owner of a towing van who plied the road regularly to “quickly hop into his car and leave the area as it is a ‘black spot’, a notorious den of Hausa/Fulani criminal gangs who rob, stab and kill their victims in cold blood.”
Immediately he got the alert from the motorists, Iruh asked other occupants to hop into the car so that they could manage the faulty car out of the “danger zone.”
But before they could drive off, the hoodlums suddenly jumped out of the bush with daggers, bows, arrows and other dangerous weapons and demanded for money, which the General offered to give to them.
The robbers stabbed him several times and he died before he got to hospital.
On the same day the General was attacked, the herdsmen also stabbed and chopped off the ear of an okada rider after he was robbed.
The long bridge on the Lagos/Ibadan expressway has become a dangerous axis for motorists and commuters.
Motorists say they often see corpses around the area.
-Pm News
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