A notorious thug in Osun popularly called Spanal was killed on Friday afternoon in Oke-Ijetu, Ilesa-garage area of Osogbo.
Spanal was a close ally of the Chairman of the Osogbo branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Kazeem Oyewale (Asiri Eniba).
Spanal was shot dead alongside his 7-year-old daughter, identified as Fatia.
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It was gathered that Spanal was killed some hours after his wife put to bed on Friday.
Source told Our Correspondents that the unidentified gunmen attacked and shot him at his first wife’s shop at Ilesa Garage.
“He was running away with blood while they followed him and shot him dead. Bullet hit his daughter and she was rushed to the hospital before they broke the news of the death of the daughter too.”
Eyewitness accounts who revealed that the operation lasted about twenty minutes, said that many motorists, motorcyclists, passersby including other users along the route disappeared into the thin air and left their means of transportation unattended.
The ugly scene which disrupted the peace of the town, especially those around the scene of the incident, left people running helter-skelter for their lives as the inhuman actors repeatedly shot into the air to instil more fear into the minds of people.