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By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri
A young boy (name withheld) who was a motorcycle rider, popularly known as ‘Okada,’ from Ohoror community, Uwheru kingdom in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State was recently stabbed to death by yet to be identified member of a ‘Sticker’ group in Ughelli.
According to an eye witness who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity, “The boy is Okada rider from Ohoror community in Uwheru kingdom. The issue started as the sticker boy stopped the Okada rider and asked of his sticker which the Okada rider couldn’t provide on time. This however led to quarrel between the Okada rider and the sticker boy. Before we realized what was happening, the sticker boy brought out a knife from his pocket and stabbed the Okada right on the neck with deep wounds. The Okada rider died on his way to the hospital.”
Still on the ugly incidence, another Okada rider in Otovwodo junction said, “The sticker boys are always after Okada riders in this town. They don’t give us breathing space at all to work freely because of these stickers. Why will mere quarrel lead to stabbing of a person to death? It’s true the Okada rider is dead and it’s a painful loss to us.
“During electioneering campaigns, many of them in the government now promised to remove these stickers and tickets from the road for us. But immediately they were voted in, the story now changed. They always use our heads every election periods just because we are Okada riders. If this one that just happened now was a normal road accident, even though it’s painful, it won’t be like this very one.
“The Delta State government and the Nigerian Police should wade into this issue immediately by following the part of justice and fair play. We can’t just lose a promising young man like that and the culprit is happily moving everywhere,” he said.
The incidence has since been reported to the Ughelli ‘A’ division of the Nigerian Police Force and the corpse deposited in the morgue. All efforts to speak to the Delta State police public relations officer, Onome Onovwakpoyeya, over the incidence proved abortive as the time of filing in this report.
