Two of the warring officials
There was pandemonium in Abeokuta on Tuesday after about 26 armed officers and men of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Ogun State Command, invaded the Abeokuta zonal command headquarters of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps in the Ibara area of the state.
The immigration men were said to have battered four TRACE officers, while about six other personnel of the traffic agency were allegedly abducted by the NIS operatives in different parts of the city.
A correspondent gathered that the NIS operatives’ invasion was a reprisal, as an unnamed immigration officer was allegedly assaulted earlier in the day. Eight TRACE men were said to have beaten up a Chief Superintendent of Immigration in the Sapon area of the state, who was alleged to have parked his car at an unathorised section of the road.
It was also gathered there was an altercation between the traffic corps members and the immigration officer, who was in company with one of his colleagues, over what was considered a breach of traffic rules.
Tempers allegedly rose when the traffic corps attempted to remove the number plate of the car. The immigration officers were said to have resisted the attempt.
One of the traffic corps members claimed that one of the immigration officers pushed him while trying to remove the number plate and he fell in the process.
But the immigration officers refuted the claim, saying the TRACE men were the aggressors, who beat up the CSI, and tore the uniform of the person who accompanied him.
During the invasion of TRACE office, the Head of Operations 2, Olalekan Adewale; a member of Parking Management Agency, Tomiwa Khaleed, and two others were injured.
The immigration men were said to have battered four TRACE officers, while about six other personnel of the traffic agency were allegedly abducted by the NIS operatives in different parts of the city.
A correspondent gathered that the NIS operatives’ invasion was a reprisal, as an unnamed immigration officer was allegedly assaulted earlier in the day. Eight TRACE men were said to have beaten up a Chief Superintendent of Immigration in the Sapon area of the state, who was alleged to have parked his car at an unathorised section of the road.
It was also gathered there was an altercation between the traffic corps members and the immigration officer, who was in company with one of his colleagues, over what was considered a breach of traffic rules.
Tempers allegedly rose when the traffic corps attempted to remove the number plate of the car. The immigration officers were said to have resisted the attempt.
One of the traffic corps members claimed that one of the immigration officers pushed him while trying to remove the number plate and he fell in the process.
But the immigration officers refuted the claim, saying the TRACE men were the aggressors, who beat up the CSI, and tore the uniform of the person who accompanied him.
During the invasion of TRACE office, the Head of Operations 2, Olalekan Adewale; a member of Parking Management Agency, Tomiwa Khaleed, and two others were injured.
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