Lagos Tricycle Rider Killed While Fighting For Right Of Way-Police

Police in Lagos says a tricycle operator, Aniete Bassey, was allegedly killed by a motorist over right of way in Surulere area of the state.
Spokesman for the Police in Lagos State, DSP Bala Elkana, confirmed the incident to newsmen in a statement yesterday, saying that the incident happened on Sunday along Akerele Street, off Falolu, Surulere.
Elkana said at about 9.30p.m on Sunday, Surulere Police station received a distress call from Randle Hospital, Surulere, that a tricycle operator was brought to the hospital with a broken head, in a pool of blood, and had died on arrival.
He said the information gathered by homicide detectives revealed that the deceased had a misunderstanding with a man in a Jeep on a major road along Akerele Street, Surulere.
According to Elkana, during the scuffle, the driver of the Jeep brought out a wheel spanner and hit the deceased person twice on the head.
He said that after a thorough examination of available traces, the Jeep driver was identified as one Christian Innocent, 39 years old.
“He was arrested by a team of detectives led by the Divisional Police Officer Surulere, CSP JimohJabaje, on August 22.
“He confessed to have engaged the deceased person in a fight over right of way.