Dispatch rider’s killing: Extortion in Lagos by agberos, national embarrassment — Delta governor’s aide

By Efe Onodjae

A Special Assistant connected Media to the Governor of Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori, Billy Egbe, has condemned the rising inclination of extortion and unit allegedly perpetrated by touts, popularly known arsenic agberos, successful Lagos State.

Egbe, successful a connection connected Friday connected his authoritative facebook wall, described the concern arsenic a “national embarrassment,” noting that the menace has go a regular world for roadworthy users crossed the state.

According to him, the activities of these groups magnitude to harassment of hardworking Nigerians, arsenic they presumption themselves astatine autobus stops crossed Lagos, extorting commercialized drivers and commuters nether antithetic guises.

He peculiarly expressed sadness implicit the caller incidental successful which a dispatch rider was brutally assaulted and reportedly killed by an alleged transport national person successful Lagos Island.

His words: “The extortion by agberos successful Lagos is excessively much. It is simply a nationalist embarrassment. I complained astir it successful a station immoderate clip agone and immoderate radical thought I didn’t cognize what I was saying. But we spot these things each time connected the streets of Lagos.”

He further said: “This sidesplitting is mindless and heartbreaking. But it is not conscionable astir this 1 incident; it is the aforesaid happening everyplace successful Lagos. The harassment is excessively much. With owed respect to the Yoruba nation, this tax-collector mentality has to stop.”

Egbe stressed that urgent enactment is needed to code the concern to forestall further nonaccomplishment of lives and reconstruct sanity to the transport strategy successful Lagos.

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