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By Brown Chimezie
Commuters plying the Lagos-Badagry Expressway have sent a distress call to the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and the state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, over the blockade of road at night by youths and hoodlums from the neighbouring Oto and Ijanikin communities.
Both communities have been at the loggerheads for the past three days over alleged assault on one of the indigenes by masquerades from one of the communities. About a week ago, angry youths from the area had blocked the same Ijanikin section of the road, protesting the alleged killing of an Okada rider in the area by policemen.
Narrating his ordeal last night, a commercial bus driver, who gave his name as Suliman Lagelu, said on getting to Ijanikin, after the police station, angry youths wielding cutlass, dane gun and charms cordoned off the road and ordered him to turn back. Other people who resisted them were attacked and their vehicles vandalised.
Lagelu added that not even the presence of policemen from the neighbouring Ijanikin police station could bring the situation under control, as they retreated to their post and locked their gates.
It was also gathered that stranded commuters, who attempted to seek refuge at the station till the following morning, were turned back by the station guard who said he was not authorised to open the gate for anybody.
Most of the commuters who passed the night on the highway called on the state governor and the Commissioner of Police, Mr Alabi, to quickly intervene before the case results into serious security breach.
