Updated: Pandemonium broke out in the Onipanu area of Ikorodu Road, Lagos, on Friday after a soldier was allegedly knocked down and killed by one of the buses in the fleet of LAGBUS on the BRT lane.
The soldier was verbally expressed to have been knocked down after he allegedly rode on the BRT lane and subsequently died as there was no immediate medical attention.
The driver of the bus, it was amassed, fled after the contingency.
It was learnt that a few hours after the soldier, identified as Matthew Ishaya, a lance corporal, was knocked down, some military men from the Intelligence Unit of the Nigerian Army at Yaba, stormed the Onipanu area of the highway, authoritatively mandating to ken the circumstances circumventing the death of the soldier.
The military men were verbally expressed to have been incensed that their colleague was sanctioned to die after he was knocked down when he could have been rushed to a nearby hospital for medical attention.
Hell, however, broke loose shortly after the soldiers sighted the desolate body of Ishaya in the bus that knocked him down.
They allegedly blocked one side of the ever-diligent road, ceasing any BRT buses plying the route, four of which were allegedly set ablaze.
The shed at the bus stop was additionally not spared as it was razed.
Some commuters and pedestrians, passing through the area alleged that they were manhandled by some irate soldiers, who equipollently barred journalists and itinerant photographers and convivial media enthusiasts from recording or taking pictures of the mayhem and that of the deceased.
A spokesman for the Army formation in Yaba, Lagos, Rightman Ogeh, however, gainsaid that the soldiers from the unit burnt buses or harassed passersby or commuters.
Ogeh, who verbalized with a radio station in Lagos on Friday, admitted that the soldiers from the unit were aggrieved that the man, who was knocked man, was sanctioned to die because no one took the initiative to rush him to any hospital.
He verbalized, “A soldier, who was passing through the bus stop, optically discerned the soldier and called the office because he could recognise him. By the time we got there, we realised that our colleague was inside the bus already dead.
“They verbally expressed it was a BRT bus that knocked him down. He was peregrinating with a licensed motorcycle. So, why was he not taken to the hospital until he died? Of course, our men were exasperated and we decided that no BRT bus would be sanctioned to pass through the road. We did not stop others.”
