Some unidentified gunmen have killed the Oyo state
Deputy Chairman of Nigeria’s National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW),
Alhaji Kamorudeen Beyioku.
He was shot in Ibadan this evening and died at the
University College Hospital (UCH), where he was rushed after the incident.
Newsmen gathered that armed police officers kept vigil at the ICU while the
battle to save his life lasted.
Confirming the incident in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital,
the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, Ayodele Lanade, disclosed that
he was yet to be fully briefed on the death.
Mr. Lanade, a Deputy Superintendent of Police,
explained that the command had to guard the terribly wounded Mr. Beyioku with
heavily armed policemen to prevent his assailants from coming to the hospital
to complete their job.
The slain state NURTW deputy chairman was part of a
temporary executive committee raised for the union on Friday, December 21 last
year, to steer its ship after over three years of a State Administrative
Council (SAC) for the union. Continue after the cut...
The union was thrown to utter confusion when its
former Chairman, Lateef Akinsola (aka Tokyo) and his executives were sacked by
the administration of former governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, in 2008.
Mr. Akinsola is currently on the police watch-list
but is in court challenging the legality a new Administrative Council.
The incumbent 14-member SAC is led by Taofeek
Oyerinde, aka Fele as Chairman, and was inaugurated last year by the National
President of the Union, Nojeem Yasin, for a four-year tenure. The death of Mr.
Beyioku means the council members are now 13.
Culled from Nigeria entertainment site
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