The New Experience Newspapers Online News Indepth, Analysis and More
A bike rider popularly known as (Okada) was allegedly beaten up by an NPA staff while driving until he collapsed.
The incident happened along Tin- can 1st gate near NPA administrative building junction on Friday 17th Oct .2019, at about 2.28 pm.
According to an eyewitness report, Okada riders have been warned not to ply the Tin-Can access road to PTML because of the rise in an accident among truck drivers on that road.
The bike boy with his passenger was stopped by the NPA staff (name withheld), the passenger was discharged as the NPA man was said to seize the bike from the owner.
The eyewitness continued that all plead by the bike boy and the onlookers to stop the NPA man not to seize the bike went on deaf ear, as the bike boy could not part with cash, which according to the boy that he just resumed work that afternoon.
The bike boy was allegedly beaten up by the NPA man while struggling with him so as not to take away the bike from him until the boy slumped and collapsed at the centre of Tin Can 1st gate junction.
Immediately the NPA man saw what happened, eloped under the tin air as nobody was allowed to enter their gate as at the time of the incident.
One of the onlookers that plead anonymous lamented that “Why should NPA deprive these men of their way of surviving, especially in our country where unemployment has been the order of the day, adding that one of his cousins after graduating could not get any job, after wasting 7yrs hunting and waiting for a job, has to fall back to riding bike for survival, then NPA will end up seizing bikes from those men.
He continued, so many questions seeking for answers about the NPA and the bikes they seized from those boys, what do they do with those bikes, where do the money after they retrieve their bike goes to.