clash between members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN and the Task Force of the Alaba International Market

The death toll in the clash between members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN and the Task Force of the Alaba International Market, Ojo area of Lagos rose to three yesterday, with the confirmation of two additional deaths.

Identities of those who lost their lives were: Onyeku Nwatu, Innocent Chinedu and  Sunday Nwora.

Twenty-eight other traders who sustained varying degrees of injuries were discharged from the

Addressing newsmen on the clash that paralyzed commercial activities at the popular market, the Chairman of the  Alaba International Amalgamated Traders Association Council of Sectional Heads,  Amajuoyi Camillus, lamented that traders were leaving the market in droves owing to the excess extortion by members of RTEAN and Park Administration.