Eyenkorin residents on rampage

...as hunter kills bus driver in Ilorin over N5,000

Residents of Eyenkorin, a suburb of Ilorin, Kwara State, Tuesday night, went on the rampage after a hunter simply identified as Sule allegedly shot dead a commercial bus driver, known as Idowu, while returning from a trip to Ibadan.
It was gathered that the driver decided to take a local route to beat the interstate lockdown directive in Kwara State.
The driver was said to have been intercepted by Sule and his colleagues at the local route in Eyenkorin and asked him to pay N5,000 before he could be allowed to proceed on his journey, but the driver reportedly resisted.
It was gathered that the refusal of the driver to pay led to altercations between him and the hunters, a development that led Sule, one of the hunters, to shoot Idowu in the chest.
The driver died instantly and the development sparked off a rampage in the sleepy Eyenkorin as residents protested the alleged action of the hunters.
It was gathered that Sule allegedly fled the town with his family after committing the crime.
Another source also claimed that the group that allegedly killed the driver was the vigilante engaged by the community and not the hunters.
The remains of the deceased had since been deposited at the General Hospital, Ilorin morgue after a complaint was lodged with the police by the family of the deceased.
The late driver, Idowu, who had earlier survived three ghastly motor accidents, is survived by three months old son, wife, and an aged mother.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ajayi Okasanmi, noted that the killer group is that of the hunters and not the vigilante.
“We have commenced investigation into the whole incident, the alleged killer has run away but we will get him. We have not made any arrest yet, and we want to arrest the person that killed the driver and nobody else.”