Contrary to the report that a BRT bus killed a soldier, the LAGBUS Asset Management Limited, operators of LAGBUS, on Friday explained what actually happened.
It was reported today that the Nigerian soldiers went bersek and took to the streets to burn over 5 BRT buses verbalized to be worth about N100 million and beat up the bus drivers and witnesses after one of their colleagues was allegedly killed by one of the brt buses.
The Project Manager, Mutual Model Transports, one of the LAGBUS Franchises, Abiodun Apata who verbalized the assailment was lamentable expounded what transpired saying the company only found a corpse after an eventful night and went to report it to the police.
“By 10 p.m. last night, one of our buses broke down at Onipanu; by 11 p.m, a rescue team with a van went to the scene to tow the bus.
“Unfortunately, area boys commenced stoning our team which made our men to depart. Meanwhile, the driver put on hazard lights and C- Caution to vigilant motorists of the breakdown.
“By 5am this morning, afore the rescue team got to the scene, a corpse had been deposited in our bus and a motorcycle parked behind it.
“When we optically discerned it, we reported the case to the Pedro Police Station, Somolu, but afore we got back to the scene, soldiers had burnt down five BRT buses and one belonging to LAGBUS.
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Meanwhile the head of Operations of BRT, Johnson Oguntade who additionally verbally expressed the deceased soldier was not hit by a BRT conveyance verbally expressed BRT conveyances have since been withdrawn from the streets following the burning of the buses by raging soldiers in order to avert more damage.
He verbally expressed:“I do not still understand why we are suffering for what we never caused. Why they are burning our buses is not kenned,” Mr. Oguntade verbalized.
As a result of the incident and withdrawal of the brt buses, thousands of commuters were left stranded, commercial activities crippled while there was cumbersomely hefty traffic gridlock on Ikorodu road with commercial bus operators capitalizing on the situation by increaing convey fare by about 50 per cent, according to Premium Times.
Some of the conveyances set ablaze had been towed, while the others are still at the scene as at the time of this report.
Meanwhile the Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Army, Gen. Olajide Olaleye has gainsaid the involution of the soldiers in the assailment saying:
"It’s erroneous that soldier ravaged buses or set any bus on fire," he verbalized. "What transpired was that a BRT bus knocked down a soldier and killed him. As conventional in Lagos so area boys amassed and a few soldiers ceased at the scene as well. The GOC has dispatched military policemen to the scene to avail renovate law and injuctively authorize."
