Union officials punches motorcyclist to death over refusal to pay N150 ticket

An official of a commercial motorcyclists’ association in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Wednesday allegedly punched a motorcycle rider, Ibrahim Raji, to death.

It was gathered that the official attacked Raji over his refusal to obtain the daily union ticket of N150.
Raji told Saheed that he was not a commercial motorcyclist, popularly called okada rider, but a bricklayer going to work and did not need to obtain any ticket.

Raji’s insistence not to pay N150 for the ticket was said to have infuriated Saheed, who dragged him down from his motorcycle and punched him on the forehead which made him fall into a gutter, where he died.

Eyewitnesses alleged that the union official wore a locally-made charmed ring on one of his fingers, which turned his punch into a “killer punch.”