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http://www.newsmakersng.com/2018/02/07/police-debunk-fake-story-reveal-how-truck-driver-crushed-19-robbery-victims-on-sagamu-benin-expressway/

Segun Atanda/

About eight years after a truck driver narrated how he crushed 19 victims of armed robbery to death on Sagamu-Benin Expressway, mischief makers are creating fresh panic in the public by circulating a picture of the accident scene and telling people that herdsmen are killing travelers along the road.

The coordinated propaganda which is also accompanied by the voice note of an alleged victim calling on travelers to stay away from the road, as well as a fake letter from a school asking students to go on a break because of the alleged mass killing which the police have described as a “lie from the pit of hell”.

Three statements were issued, today alone, to debunk the rumors being peddled on social media. One came from the Zone ‘2’ police headquarters in Lagos, two others from the police headquarters in Ogun and Lagos states.

NewsmakersNG has however nailed the lie with a 2010 video interview of a truck driver who actually ran over the victims on July 31, 2009, when he was in a state of panic.

Osayande Idahosa said that he ran over the passengers, who were being robbed on the rainy night of July 31, 2009, because he thought they were logs placed on the road by armed robbers as he viewed them with panic from a distance.

The victims were travelling in a luxury bus, marked XF 285 AKD. The bus, with 41 passengers, was hijacked by bandits at a spot between Federal Government College, Odogbolu and Babcock University, on the Ijebu-Ode–Sagamu Expressway. They were asked to lie face down on the road, where they were crushed by a Scania lorry, marked XN 808 BEN, during a robbery that lasted for about 10 hours, claiming...http://www.newsmakersng.com/2018/02/07/police-debunk-fake-story-reveal-how-truck-driver-crushed-19-robbery-victims-on-sagamu-benin-expressway/

PROPAGANDA AT ITS PEAK!

lord have mercy.
I woke up to the pictures and audio on whatapps this morning and I was scared to death.
thank God it's a lie.