BRT bus did not kill any soldier – LAGBUS
Premium Times
Published: July 4,2014

The withdrawal of the luxury buses left thousands of commuters stranded and crippled commercial activities on Ikorodu road.

The LAGBUS Asset Management Limited, operators of LAGBUS, on Friday, said contrary to claims by soldiers and reports, it was not a BRT bus that killed a soldier.

The death of the soldier drew angst from raging soldiers, who burnt BRT buses said to be worth about N100 million, and beat up the bus drivers and witnesses of their rampage.

Explaining the accident, Abiodun Apata, Project Manager, Mutual Model Transports, one of the LAGBUS Franchises, said 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 started stoning our team which made our men to leave. Meanwhile, the driver put on hazard lights and C- Caution to alert motorists of the breakdown.

“By 5am this morning, before the rescue team got to the scene, a corpse had been deposited in our bus and a motorcycle parked behind it.

“When we saw it, we reported the case to the Pedro Police Station, Somolu, but before we got back to the scene, soldiers had burnt down five BRT buses and one belonging to LAGBUS.

The Head of Operations of BRT, Johnson Oguntade, said BRT vehicles have been withdrawn from the streets to prevent more damage.

He said the deceased soldier was not hit by a BRT vehicle

“I do not still understand why we are suffering for what we never caused.
Why they are burning our buses is not known,” Mr. Oguntade said.

LAGBUS also withdrew its buses from the roads following the burning of the buses by raging soldiers.

The buses were attacked by soldiers, who were protesting the death of an army corporal who was allegedly riding a motorbike near the Palmgrove Bus Stop on the Ikorodu Road, Lagos.

Mr. Apata said that the attack was unfortunate, adding that the luxury buses were withdrawn to avert more damage.

The alleged accident and withdrawal of the luxury buses left thousands of commuters stranded and crippled commercial activities on Ikorodu
road.

The developments also resulted in traffic gridlock.

Some of the vehicles set ablaze had been towed, while the others are still at the scene as at the time of this report..

Commercial bus operators exploited the situation to increase fares by about 50 per cent.

No BRT ticket vendors were seen at the vehicles shelters.

Sources-http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/164420-brt-bus-did-not-kill-any-soldier-lagbus.html

Dis explanation even lends credence to d story bc d press release looks too fabricated to b real:"ur men went to tow ur bus by 10pm,area boys chased u away and u returnd by 5am".Y ddnt dey come back dat same nite wt police excort knowin how dangerous d broken down bus cud b to other motorists.

doctokwus: Dis explanation even lends credence to d story bc d press release looks too fabricated to b real:"ur men went to tow ur bus by 10pm,area boys chased u away and u returnd by 5am".Y ddnt dey come back dat same nite wt police excort knowin how dangerous d broken down bus cud b to other motorists.

Why was the soldier riding an okada on that road? It's illegal. Why was he on BRT lane, it's illegal.

Don't know what time the accident happened but by past 7am, there was no traffic. When I passed, I saw the bike behind the BRT on the BRT lane and just a handful of people had gathered.

If this story is true, why did the soldiers pursue the driver into palmgroove estate and then beat up a security man?

Naija the war zone.

How does burning up the buses return their comrade?

What exactly does it take to get the true side of a story in this our beloved country?

Nawah o. If the military could take the laws into their hand then this country is doomed because that is the last institution that's supposed to maintain law and order and prevent chaos.

This is like the fourth version am hearing about this story.. it just shows how Untrustworthy and manipulative the hearts of many of us are.. The Change we desire starts with Everyone.

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Why was the soldier riding an okada on that road? It's illegal. Why was he on BRT lane, it's illegal.

Don't know what time the accident happened but by past 7am, there was no traffic. When I passed, I saw the bike behind the BRT on the BRT lane and just a handful of people had gathered.

If this story is true, why did the soldiers pursue the driver into palmgroove estate and then beat up a security man?

though the soldier was not driving on the brt lane none the less come to badagry express way and see the wickedness and reclessnes of the brt drivers you will wonder whether they are mad people.

Soldier didn't 'kill' BRT, BRT didn't kill soldier.
The situation is as confused as Nigeria.
Which should we believe now?

I can only imagine.

By 5am this morning, before the rescue team got to the scene, a corpse had been deposited in our bus and a motorcycle parked behind it

This is what i call a customised and a Repackaged lie.

Its well

First report: BRT hits a soldier, he died and other soldiers are burning buses

Another Report from the Army: our men didn't burn buses, area boys did

Yet another Report from LAGBUS: BRT bus didn't hit any soldier, area boys chased us and later a corpse was dropped in our bus


I'm waiting for the next versions, like:

Version 4: no soldier died, no bus was burnt, area boys fabricated the story and photoshopped the images

since area boys must take the blame for their irresponsibility

And maybe another version

Version 5 (area boys) : we didn't know a bus broke down or hit a soldier or that any was burnt, this is the first time we are hearing this, we weren't involved in any of the events

Nigeria my beloved country I hail thee!!!

Xo y d riot?

doctokwus: Dis explanation even lends credence to d story bc d press release looks too fabricated to b real:"ur men went to tow ur bus by 10pm,area boys chased u away and u returnd by 5am".Y ddnt dey come back dat same nite wt police excort knowin how dangerous d broken down bus cud b to other motorists.

plus fuc.king one +1

Kangaroo Republic. Most religious, yet most wicked, heartless and corrupt nation.

If the sources of the story is true, I'll employ Fashola to deploy all soldiers in lagos to borno and bring in new military men. Shebi dem get power when they come face to face with boko boys let dem burn their buses and show their stunts...#mofos

Make thunder draw tatoo for that ur evil army head!

I've got d soldiers ,LABUS,and rumours version,now l want d area boys version,they should also defend themselves,after all d soldier,lagbus and d govt recongnized..Area boys ur spokeman pls we need version 6...ikan ogbe kan omo aja...awon oni ranu.

hmmm.

So confuse, who should we believe

Jabioro: I've got d soldiers ,LABUS,and rumours version,now l want d area boys version,they should also defend themselves,after all d soldier,lagbus and d govt recongnized..Area boys ur spokeman pls we need version 6...ikan ogbe kan omo aja...awon oni ranu.

so area boys too don get spokeman

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Everybody just dey lie about this issue

BRT - We no kill soldier

Soldiers - We no burn any BRT bus

Ok nothing happened. shikena. Case closed. Everybody go home

Its only in Nigeria where you cannot separate fact from rumour even in this age of technology and social network

Then who is saying the truth

The violent taketh it by force.
Nobody killed anybody.
Case closed.
But soldiers' cases no dey close o.
Moral of the moviestory
don't take death cases to the Nigerian police.
If u do, everything will turn against you

and soldiers did not burn brt buses

if the police really want to investigate the matter, they should just get some of the area boys arrested most especially those ones that operate in the zero hours. case resolved. #lobatan

What a very useless country, even if the soldier was killed by the BRT as alleged, is it the function of the military to take matters into its own hand?, instead of reporting to the police for proper investigation. Moreover, if there is effective overall CCTV, what actually transpired would have been recorded and case solved.