The Lagos State Police Command has showed that it'll on Friday arraign a frontrunner of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Shamsideen Adio, referred to as Shameleon, on Friday over the alleged killing of a dispatch rider in Lagos Island.
SaharaReporters had pronounced that Adio, 55, turned into arrested after he allegedly descended at the sufferer at some point of a scuffle on Tapa Street, Lagos Island, on September 17, 2025.
According to eyewitnesses, the attack commenced while the rider allegedly blocked Adio`s vehicle.
The state of affairs fast escalated, with Adio joined via way of means of buddies and colleagues, who reportedly battered the rider mercilessly, sparking huge outrage.
In a video visible via way of means of SaharaReporters, Adio turned into visible punching the negative rider again and again along his friend, at the same time as a crowd of onlookers watched with out intervening.
According to eyewitnesses, the rider turned into struck again and again with a helmet and fists till he collapsed. He turned into rushed to the medical institution however later died from accidents sustained withinside the attack.
Confirming the development, the Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Bababseyi Oluseyi, stated the suspect is presently being held on the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti-Yaba and could be arraigned on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State House of Assembly has additionally waded into the matter, insisting that the suspect and his accomplices have to be prosecuted.
SaharaReporters pronounced that the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, Adewale Adedeji, condemned the incident, describing it as “an act that have to be condemned via way of means of each well-that means Nigerian.”
“As the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation on the Lagos State House of Assembly, I stand to mention that the movement via way of means of Shamsideen isn't always most effective barbaric, shameful, inhuman, and heartbreaking; he have to be prosecuted to a logical cease via way of means of the police,” Adedeji stated.
He additionally charged the management of the NURTW in Lagos State, led via way of means of Alhaji Adekunle Mustapha Seigo, to droop Adio and distance the union from the “lawless behavior” at the same time as investigations continue.
“The NURTW to which Shamsideen belongs need to be a expert union and does now no longer deserve participants who're lawless, do now no longer see their fellow beings as people enough, or who suppose that their moves need to be overlooked,” he stated.
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