A businessman, Ahmed Sulaiman, has been crushed to death by a Bus Rapid Transit vehicle in the Owode Onirin area of Lagos State.
gathered that the businessman had attempted to cross the BRT lane when the driver, Lekan Anifowose, who was conveying passengers inward Mile 12, hit him.
BRT drivers plying the area reportedly stopped operation and parked their vehicles at a safe distance to protect the vehicles from being vandalised by the mob. He said, “There was an accident at Owode Onirin that resulted in a loss of life. What I gathered was that a BRT bus killed one of the people at Owode Onirin and over 40 BRT buses, including those going to Ikorodu and Lagos, were delayed to avoid destruction by the people in the area.
The Chief Security Officer of Primero Transport Services Limited, the franchise holder of the BRT vehicles, Cletus Okodolor, while commiserating with the victim’s family, said the driver and the bus were in police custody.
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