Hunt for killer-hawkers who stoned KAI official to death in Lagos

The Police Command in Lagos State, yesterday, said investigation had begun to fish out the hoodlums that allegedly stoned an official of the state’s Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, brigade to death.

The victim, Moshood Ayeni, was said to have been lynched by street hawkers when he apprehended a hawker in traffic. Other hawkers then mobilised and attacked the brigade’s vehicle.
Spokesperson of the Brigade, Alabi Rahmat, said

 “the officials were coming from an assignment when they saw traders hawking in traffic and arrested Jeremiah Nnana and Orichi Nwofokoh, both selling sausage and phone accessories in the traffic. “The suspects were then taken into the agency’s vehicle with number plates KRD 643 DS and suddenly, the suspect’s colleagues, who escaped when the two were arrested, came back and pelted the officials with stones. “The traders started shouting and calling the KAI officials thieves. And when the stones from rampaging hawkers hit the victim on his head, he fell down from the moving vehicle and became unconscious.” 

The victim was said to have been rushed to the State Emergency Centre, where he was revived and later referred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.