Hell was let loose, on Tuesday, at the Second Rainbow area along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, in Lagos State, after some men suspected to be soldiers attacked some touts who inflicted injury on one of their colleagues.
This was just as a tanker loaded with petroleum products rammed into a commercial motorcyclist at Alaba bus stop on the same expressway, in the driver’s bid to avoid being extorted by touts.
There were different accounts as to how the trouble started between the soldier and the touts. A version of the account said the soldier was escorting a truck which was stopped by some touts on an extortion spree.
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The soldier reportedly refused and was dragged out of the truck and gang-beaten.
Another version of the account said the soldier in mufti was in a commercial bus heading towards Cele Bus Stop , when some touts popularly called Agbero clustered round the vehicle, demanding for money.
He was said to have ordered the miscreants to leave the vehicle. When they refused, the soldier reportedly alighted from the bus to shove one of the touts away, only to be gang beaten by over ten touts.
One hour later, the injured soldier returned with his colleagues who descended on any tout in sight.
It was gathered that the soldiers unleashed mayhem on the touts al night in the area.
