Four people were feared killed and several others injured when members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers and motorcycle operators, also known as okada riders, clashed on Friday in the Ajah/Lekki area of Lagos State.
Policemen drafted to the scene by the Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, have so far arrested 26 people.
An eyewitness said that the motorbike riders alleged that the members of the NURTW were preventing their members from picking passengers at the motor park.
This move did not go down well with some of the motorbike riders who mobilized themselves as early as 8am at the Ajah Roundabout, closed to the park, brandishing cutlasses, axes and other dangerous weapons.
The NURTW were alleged to have also come out combat ready and placed their members in a strategic positions in the park.
An eyewitness said: “Immediately the NURTW members sighted the Okada riders, they pounced on them and wounded two and several others sustained various degrees of injury.
“I heard that four persons were killed, but I didn’t see the corpses.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, said: “Our men from Area J Command were on ground to maintained law and order, while the two people who had machete cuts during the clash had been rushed to a private hospital for proper medical attention.”