The red light, signalling vehicles coming from Odi-Olowo axis to stop was on when the siren-blaring truck, bearing the soldiers got to the junction but refused to stop, forcing its way through the traffic.
Horsewhips swished as the soldiers, who did not alight as the truck eased through the traffic, flogged passersby along the road, paving the way for the truck.
Confused pedestrians, who ran helter-skelter, fell into the gutter by the roadside just as a man, who fled the road to the other side, narrowly missed being hit by an oncoming vehicle.
Passersby, who spoke on condition of anonymity, decried the action of the soldiers, describing it as barbaric.
The truck passed through the intersection at 4.30pm.
A passerby said, “This is the second time they (soldiers) will do this today; they had sped past some few hours ago. They are just creating unnecessary tension in the capital city.”
It will be recalled that soldiers deployed in Ilesa and Osogbo wreaked havoc on the citizenry in an effort to curb the uprising that greeted the declaration of ex-Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola as the winner of the April 14, 2007 election by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
A young man was allegedly shot dead by soldiers in front of his house and a young lady (names withheld) was raped at Capital Hotel area, Osogbo.
Army authorities had visited Osogbo from Two Mechanised Division, Ibadan, after The PUNCH exclusively reported the rape of the lady, fishing out the culprit for disciplinary actions.
Several residents of Ilesa were also beaten up by soldiers in the wake of political crisis that characterised the general elections in 2007.
But the Court of Appeal in Ibadan in its unanimous judgment nullified the election of Oyinlola and held that Governor Rauf Aregbesola was the authentic governor of the state in 2007.
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