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Bamise Ayanwole: BRT suspends operation over passenger's death
 
By: Abara Blessing Oluchi
Tue, 8 Mar 2022   ||   Nigeria,
 

The management of Primero Transport Services has temporarily suspended operations in Lagos.

The various Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) terminals across Lagos State didn't operate on Tuesday morning.

The halt, it was gathered was as a result of the murder of Bamise Ayanwole.

Recall that the 22-year-old Ayanwole got missing after boarding a BRT bus before she was later found dead on Monday.

The driver Andrew Nice has been arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, in Ogun State, and handed over to the Lagos Police Command.

Following his arrest, the BRT driver was paraded by the Lagos Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi at the Command’s headquarters in Ikeja.

Disclosing how the deceased was abducted, Nice said he picked her from Chevron and three other guys along the way.

The BRT driver said the three passengers showed him their guns and told him to co-operate.

Nice narrated that he was no longer himself after seeing their weapons, because he did whatever they ordered him to do.

On getting to Carter bridge, as instructed by them, the BRT driver said the assailants ordered him to stop and open the door of the bus.

After he opened the door, Nice said three men dragged Oluwabamise along with them.

He disclosed that while the deceased was crying for help, he could do nothing.

Out of fear, the driver said he ran away instead of reporting the incident to the police.

According to Nice: “I picked her from Chevron, and the other three guys at …when those guys show me his weapon as I was inside, I can’t be myself anymore.

“Fears have come in, so, whatever the man with the gun told me, I do. I followed that Carter Bridge, that overhead bridge, they ordered me to stop there, they say I should open the door, when I open the door, then when they come down, they now start dragging her, when I saw that she was crying for help, actually, I was helpless.” (sic)

 

 

 

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