KAI official dies after attack by street traders

A Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) official, Moshood Ayeni, on Wednesday in Lagos was lynched, following his attempt to arrest street hawkers at Iyana Oworo axis by Car Wash before Ogudu layby.

Ayeni and his colleagues were around that time making their way back to the office in the Agency’s vehicle with registration number KRD643DS when the incident occurred.

The deceased, an Enforcement Environmental Sanitation on Grade Level 05, was said to have apprehended one Jeremiah Nnana (28) who was hawking ‘Gala’ and another hawker, Orichi Nwofokoh (20) for selling phone accessories along the highway.

The two hawkers were said to have started shouting and calling the attention of their colleagues around, who thereafter gathered and started throwing stones at the vehicle, a green Maria, in which the KAI officials were already in.

Ayeni was said to have been eventually hit on the head and, thereafter became unconscious, making him to fell down from, hitting his head on the highway.

The officer was immediately rushed to the Lagos State Emergency Centre at 7up, where they tried to revive him before he was later referred to ‎ the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) where he was pronounced dead around 12.47 pm.

His remains have since been deposited at the LUTH mortuary.

Reacting, the KAI Marshal General (KMG), Csp Jimoh Amusat (rtd), has strongly condemned the barbaric act of violence unleashed on the officer of the Brigade, while carrying out his lawful duties.

Amusat, in a statement made available by the Agency’s Public Affairs Officer, Alabi Rahmat, vowed that the brigade ‎ would not be deterred in combating menace of the illegal highway traders and hawkers within the metropolis.