BY OLA AJAYI
IBADAN—A widow, Mrs. Sade Ayoola with gunshot wounds received during one of the fracas by factions of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, yesterday at the panel of enquiry investigating the mayhem, said a leader of faction to the crisis wore military uniform when he and his faction struck on the fateful day.

Writhing in pains, she narrated how other five people around her were killed by the hoodlums’ bullets.
She said that around 11pm on that day, the hoodlums disrupted the peace of the night by shooting sporadically.

However, because of her pains, the committee headed by the retired Acting Judge of the state, Justice Olagoke Ige, asked her to go home and return on Monday to continue with her  evidence in the matter.

A group under the aegis of ‘Peace Loving Group of the union’ also spoke through one Munirudeen Yusuf told the committee that insatiable thirst for wealth accounted for the bloodshed in the union.

He cited instances of how the union had been enmeshed in crises many years ago when Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (Tokyo) allegedly took over forcefully from the then Chairman, Chief J.O. Ojewumi.

Yusuf added that the crisis was further fuelled in 2007 and 2010 during the tenure of former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala due to his desperation to get a second term ticket to govern the state.