How NAF personnel death caused pandemonium
THERE was pandemonium at the popular Oshodi area of Lagos, yesterday, following protest by motor park touts and hoodlums, who mistook the presence of military personnel in Cappa Park, Mosafejo, for an invasion and subsequent arrest of their chairman. It was gathered that a team of OP MESSA, a joint internal security operational platform made up of the Army, Navy and Air Force, stormed the park to meet with its leader, as part of an investigation into the murder of an Air Force personnel, Monday night. There were different accounts as to how the deceased Airman whose identity could not be ascertained was killed. A version of the account said the Non-Commissioned Officer, who was in mufti, boarded a commercial bus from Oshodi to Ikorodu, Monday night. A verbal confrontation between some passengers and bus owners at the park reportedly ensued before they embarked on the journey. In the personnel’s bid to calm the situation, he was said to have been beaten to death. Another version of the...