Soldier Kills Danfo Driver Over N100 Transport Fare

                      Obalende Motor Park where the incident happened

There was pandemonium on Monday morning at the Obalende bus terminus at the Obalende, Ikoyi area of Lagos State after a yet-to-be-identified soldier killed a commercial bus driver, Bashiru Adebayo.

Eyewitnesses say the soldier killed the 34-year-old over an argument on N100 transport fare.

An eyewitness, Abdulrasheed Ajagun, said the soldier had accompanied a woman to the bus park and had left when the argument started.

He said, “The soldier was in mufti, so nobody knew he was a soldier. He came to the park with the woman and she boarded one of the buses going to Yaba.

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“The bus conductor told the woman she would pay N150 for the normal fare and N100 for the three bags she had in the boot.

“After arguing that she would not pay, she decided to call her soldier friend on the telephone. He came back to the park and started querying the conductor over the N100.

“The driver, who was calling passengers into the bus, heard their argument and went to intervene.

“Before anyone knew what was happening, the soldier had held him (driver) by his shirt and started slapping him. As we all begged him to leave him alone, he gave the driver a blow in the neck. He slumped.

“Not satisfied, he stamped his foot on him. The danfo driver died right there.”

A mob was said to have quickly gathered around the area, while the soldier was seized and beaten up.

Some policemen monitoring traffic within the vicinity were said to have rescued the soldier from the irate mob.

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