Bus company denies rape as
police arrests suspects
WEDNESDAY, 04 APRIL 2012
09:11 AGENCY REPORTS
Four suspects have been
arrested by the Ogun State Police
Command on Tuesday, in
connection to the robbery attack
last Saturday on an Ekene Dili
Chukwu luxury bus from Enugu
which had 42 female secondary
school students on board.
Confirming the arrest,
spokesman for the Ogun State
Police Command, Mr Olumuyiwa
Adejobi, said: “The Ogun State
Police Command has arrested the
driver of the luxury bus that
conveyed the Enugu students
who were attacked by some
hoodlums at Ogbere along the
ever busy Ijebu/Benin
expressway at 11. 40p.m. on
Saturday, 31/3/2012 and four
others who have been suspected
to have carried out the
operation.The other suspects
arrested are Oni Olopari,
Innocent Omule, Gbenga
Adebayo and Samuel Luca. Driver
of the bus has identified Samuel
Luca as one of those who
attacked them that night."
The driver was also arrested, as
he was accused of not listening
to motorists who had warned
him of the armed robbers
roadblock that lay ahead,
therefore putting the lives of the
students in the vehicle in danger.
“The driver is not new to
robbers’ modus operandi and
should have stopped to find out
what the problem was.” police
sources said.
Three days after the incident, the
company's General Manager,
Charles Obiora, in a newspaper
interview(not BusinessDay)
blamed the attack on some
parents of the students, who he
claims insisted that their wards
be brought to Lagos since they
had already reached Sagamu
which is not far from Lagos,
thereby breaking the transport
company's policy of night travel.
He also denied that any of the
students were raped.
“It is true that the bus ran into a
gang of armed robbers, but
about 17 of the students had
disembarked on the order of the
hoodlums while they were being
searched and robbed of their
valuables and at the sight of a
patrol van that was on routine
patrol of the road, one of the
robbers jumped into the bus and
zoomed off into the bush not too
far from the scene of
incident.The vehicle and the
remaining 25 students on board
were later recovered where they
were abandoned.I can tell you
that nobody was raped and I
challenge any parent who said
his or her daughter was raped to
come up with a medical report
from a government hospital to
that effect.” he said in the
interview.

This is a link:
businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/latest/35475-bus-company-denies-rape-as-police-arrests-suspects

this is now a serious matter...can the Police get that Manager arrested and have him tell us how he knew they were not gang rape.d

Oh, so it was the parents that urged the driver to drive on ?

More and more twists.

Parents need to think more about their kids and less about chasing money, the country is messed up, one needs to go the extra mile for the kids biko. I'm sure the most of the parents would have gone to enugu themselves to meet, greet and lead home were it to be a business partner coming in.