Pandemonium has ensued in Osogbo, osun state following a clash between a group of commercial drivers and supporters of the state park management chairman, Wakili Nurudeen, over allegations of extortion.
Accirding to report, the conflict escalated into a fierce gunfight, leading to serious injuries on both sides.
Wakili Nurudeen himself was attacked and hospitalized at an undisclosed location.
The turmoil, which took place in the evening, spread across several key areas, including the Park Management System Secretariat and major parks in Osogbo, as well as Oke-Baale, Ilesa Garage, Sadiat, and Oke-Ayepe.
The scene was marked by heavy gunfire, stabbings, and the use of various dangerous weapons, resulting in numerous injuries among the combatants.
Residents were said to have scampered safety following the sporadic shooting in the affected areas.
During the clash, the irate commercial drivers, and some executive officers of the park management system said to have unleashed terror on the chairman leading to injuries substance on his neck and a hand.
Earlier, the aggrieved drivers had staged a peaceful protest around Olaiya area of Osogbo to demand for removal of the chairman whom they accused of using Governor Ademola Adeleke’s name to extort from them.
While addressing the protesters, their spokesperson who is a former Secretary of the National Union of Road Transport Workers who identified himself as “SA to Park Management Chairman”, Morounkade Akinade said, “When the governor (Ademola Adeleke) wanted to become the Asiwaju of Ede Land, he (Nurudeen) said each of the 8 groups in Osun State should bring N150,000 which amounted to N1.2 million.
“So, he is very fond of collecting money with the name of Adeleke’s family. If anyone challenges him, he will threaten such a person.
So, we decided that we didn’t want him again, he is not capable, he didn’t have experience and when we tried to correct him, he refused blatantly.
“The government gave us ticket, but he refused to remit money to them. We opposed him then, but he threatened to kill us.
He even beat our members and we have sent the pictures to the DSS for investigation.
“We don’t want him again as our state chairman, the members are from Ife, Modakeke, Sekona, Ilesa, Ila, Ode-Omu, Gbongan and Oke-Ila, they are all here at our state secretariat.
We are at the secretariat now and they are threatening us with guns. They said they will kill us.”
However, Waikiki debunked the allegation he described as untrue during an interview with newsmen saying, the irate Park members had hated him since NURTW was abolished in the state and replaced with Osun Park Management System.
Narrating his ordeal on how he was allegedly attacked, he remarked, “I saw that some hoodlums gathered and blocked me on the road, two of them were our former members.
They attacked and stabbed me. They shot at my car and my car is still at the place where they damaged it. The Police have seen the evidence too.
