On Thursday in Akure, Ondo State capital ,miscreants exchanged blows over the sharing formular to be adopted for the 11 cows crushed to death by a luxurious bus.
The accident, according to Sunday Vanguard investigation, occurred around 4am along the Akure-Owo expressway in Akure.
No death was recorded or any passenger wounded in the bus. But the sleep of many of them was disrupted following the accident.
Immediately the news of the accident filtered to the miscreants they mobilised themselves in their hundreds and the invaded the scene as early as 5am.
Armed with knives and cutlasses, the miscreants removed the dead cows before day break.
Argument about where it would be safe for them to carry the cows to for sharing reportedly caused confusion..
It was later agreed that it should be 12 to a cow and within few minutes they have divided themselves into groups and each group organised a vehicle to convey their own ‘loot’.
Sunday newspaper gathered that fight broke out among the miscreants over how many people will share the cows and who should take which part of the animals.
Eyewitness account said that the luxurious bus, marked Anambra KPP 158XA, was coming from Abuja and heading for Lagos when the accident occurred at the Sebi Filling Station in Akure along the expressway.
Immediately the accident occurred, the herdsmen in charge of the cows reportedly fled into the bush for fear that they may be lynched.
It was gathered that two herdsmen were with the over 25 cows when the crash occurred.The younger herdsmen, it was learnt, had allowed the cows to cross the road without checking if it was cleared to do so. Also, the driver and passengers in the luxurious bus fled the scene thinking that the Fulani herdmen may mobilise to vent their anger on them.
