By Isaac Anumihe
Business activities have resumed on Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos after Wednesday’s fracas between the police and truck drivers over the killing of a truck driver by a policeman.
Daily Sun gathered that the police authorities initiated a peace move with the leadership of Association of Maritime Truck Owners (AMATO) to ensure that calm is returned to the ports as the police were investigating the matter.
Following this, Daily Sun checks revealed that the chairman of AMATO, Chief Remi Ogungbemi had appealed to the restive youths to remain calm pending the outcome of police investigations and possible compensation of their late colleague.
When this reporter visited the scene of the incident yesterday, the premises of the two buildings housing the banks had been sealed off. The management of Diamond Bank had covered the name of the bank with corrugated iron sheets while the vandalised bullion van was still lying in front of the bank.
However, businesses that closed shop in the wake of the mob action had begun skeletal operations. Some of the banks along Creek Road such as GTB, Wema and UBA etc, including some offices around the area whose businesses were disrupted had resumed normal activities, yesterday.
Recall that an irate mob had razed down two banks and stoned to death a policeman at Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos over the killing of a truck driver.
An eyewitness account has it that the policeman had ordered the truck driver to re-park his truck which was blocking the Diamond Bank branch along the Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos. But the driver argued that he had no other place to park.
An argument was said to have ensued between the driver and the policeman who pulled the trigger and shot the driver in the head.
The death of the driver prompted his colleagues to demand that extra-judicial punishment should be meted out to the policeman who shot the driver.
In the process, the irate mob was reported to have razed down two banks.
The police on its official Facebook page had admitted that there was a minor argument between a policeman and a truck driver which later led to disruption of business.
The post reads: “Truck boys on Creek Road, Apapa burnt down Sterling Bank branch over an alleged misunderstanding with a mobile police officer in the area.
“The truck boys, numbering about hundred were reported to have chased the officer from the Creek Road branch of Sterling Bank before burning it down” it said.