The first leg of the 2017 Lagos Street Carnival staged in Ikeja didn’t go as planned.
Things went bad as security broke down sources disclosed.
The area boys reportedly had a ‘’free day’’ at the Oba Akran
Avenue venue of the event which held on Sunday December 3.
Gaily dressed fun lovers were targetted
and robbed.
Those who resisted were stabbed. And some just stabbed to
create fear before they were robbed.
There were alleged to be cases of rape.
This is despite Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s attempt save the
day when he saw indications of what was to come.
He ordered that the show be stopped as the enviroment was
becoming ‘’unconducive’’ for fun lovers.
But that might have helped to reduce numbers of victims, but
it didn’t stop the spree of robbery attacks and other vices that eventually
took hold of the venue.
CDQ, one of the musical acts billed to perform - obviously
concerned about his fee -later took to his instagram page to explained he was
on time based on agreement with his management and the agency that contracted
him.
And confirmed he couldn’t perform because Governor Ambode
ordered the show stopped because the enviroment was becoming ‘’in conducive’’.
Another instagram user, amphy stated that though the show
was ok, ‘’everything later went rough and by uncle phone was stolen and oda
uncle was stabbed’’.
This development is far cry from past editions where
security was optimum and all the area boys ‘’kept in check’’.
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