Hoodlums attack Ondo NURTW office, steal N118m

Chairman of the Ondo State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Chief Oladutele Obayoriade, on Sunday said hoodlums vandalised  the union’s secretariat in Akure and stole N118m.

Obayoriade told journalists in Akure that those arrested in connection with the theft, which took place on December 30, were not members of the NURTW in the state.

The suspects, who were charged to court  last Thursday, he alleged, had confessed that they were mobilised from neighbouring states by an executive member of the union in the state to carry out the act.

Obayoriade known as Die the matter, said the aim was to violently terminate his four-year-tenure which was put in place in 2011 through a democratic arrangement.

He said, “On December 30, 2012 at about 1am, I was informed that about 60 men with guns, cutlasses and axes had invaded our secretariat in the Ijapo area of Akure.

“They were said to have scared residents of the estate with their indiscriminate shootings but one of them who had my number immediately called me in confidence that they were all brought in from neighbouring states.”