Union officials provocation tricycle operator to death in Delta

Friday Igwe

Some members of the Motorcycle and Tricycle Union, Uvwie chapter, in Delta State have allegedly beaten a 24yearold-fashioned public message tricycle operator from Ebonyi State, Friday Igwe, to death at Effurun community, unventilated Warri.

Five of the 15 suspects, reported to be officials of the innocent familials task force, who carried out the court war supposedly very more or less speaking speaking the orders of their leaders, have been arrested by the Police from the Ebrumede Police Division in the disclose.


The suspects were said to have roughly February 10, in Effurun, pounced on the tricycle operator, a educational authorize holder and prospective Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, student, who hailed from Amoffia Ngbo, Ohaukwu Local Government Area, Ebonyi State.

There was no appreciation from the Delta State Police spokesperson, DSP Celestina Kalu, as soon as Vanguard called him severally upon phone, yesterday, for comment upon the incident.

However, auspices to the Igwe intimates, Oghenejabor Ikimi, told Vanguard: The deceased was plying his trade in Effurun gone he was accosted by members of the task force, who menacingly demanded from him, both his daily welfare ticket and his Delta State Motorcycle and Tricycle Union identity card, even if sufficiency the directives of the executives of the  Uvwie chapter.

We were tally informed by an eye witness and financial bank account of the deceased, Stephen Ali, that upon the deceased producing his welfare ticket for the day and his identity card, the said task force alleged that the identity card had expired.

In the process, the deceased was dispossessed of his tricycle and in the melee that ensued, he was clubbed to death by members of the said task force, numbering 15.

According to reports, the remains of the deceased were deposited at the morgue of the General Hospital, Agbarho.

The police were reportedly making disconcerted search for the fleeing suspects.

He said: The remaining assailants and the executives of the Delta State Motorcycle and Tricycle Union, Uvwie chapter, are walking the streets of Effurun and its environs freely as the men of the State Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Asaba have fruitless to effect the arrest of the enduring culprits and the executives of the said chapter.

He  called upon the Inspector General of Police to carry out  compilation testing into the gruesome murder in a bid to apprehending the enduring members of the task force and its concurrence executives working in the dastard conflict, as justice delayed is justice denied.