Liberty Whitney, 20, from Warri, Delta State had her valuables recovered from “one chance” robbers by the men of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command.
Minutes after moving, more passengers came on board and the bus was left with two empty seats. On getting to Rainbow bus top, two men boarded the bus and that was when pandemonium struck.
The men unleashed mayhem on the passengers. According to Whitney, she said, “the bus was slowing down to pick passengers at Cele bustop when two guys in white native attires, having two guns each and pointing at us while asking that we remained calm and do as we were told.”
She noted that when she made another attempt to jump down, one of the robbers, now three (3) brandished a gun in her face with threat of getting shot if she didn’t comply, he asked her to part with her valuables.
“I was allowed to jump down from the vehicle. Barely some minutes later, I heard a gun shot then a guy was thrown off the bus. He had been shot by the side. He hung on the back of the bus. I don’t know why he did that though but it was at this point that RRS men chased the vehicle with bikes. The robbers shot several times in the air but the policemen went after them.”
It was after she was calm she realized that the man that had been shot and clung to the back of the bus was the driver. He was fighting for his bus which was his only source of livelihood.
The driver passed away on Thursday, 23rd November after all efforts to revive him at the Critical Care Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja failed. He died of the gun-shot wound he sustained at the hands of the robbers.
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