Human and vehicular movements were disrupted Monday when members of the Oyo State council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) clashed with commercial vehicles’ operators plying Mokola-Ojo road in Ibadan over non-payment of dues. CEOAFRICA learnt that the motorists were protesting over the exorbitant fees the union members were charging them. In addition, some of the motorists had refused to pay the fees on the ground that the union officials always resorted to force in collecting the money from them during which some parts of their vehicles were destroyed .However, the union members would have none of these; they were bent on collecting the fees from the commercial motorists.

 As the tension thickened, the union members had to call for reinforcement from Ojo motor park and some of them stormed the University of Ibadan bus stop with dangerous weapons and charms. It took the arrival of policemen from the Sango Police Division to restore order. The policemen started shooting sporadically into the air to scare away the union members, but not without arresting one of them who was armed with cutlass. Police officer who pleaded for anonymity told our reporter that the matter was being investigated.