A Bus Speedy Transit (BRT) bus was attacked, with passengers aboard robbed in broad daylight by thugs within the Orile-Alaba Suru space of Lagos State.
An X (previously Twitter) consumer made this recognized by means of a viral video on Thursday.
The Lagos State owned BRT bus with registration quantity 2163 was coming from the Mile 2 space and heading to Lagos Island earlier than it was instantly attacked by the thugs.
The narrator within the video mentioned, “That is the bus 2163 that was attacked whereas we had been coming from Mile 2 and going to the Island.
He defined that incident occurred when boys began throwing stones on the bus heading in direction of Lagos Island.
“There was site visitors, we thought it was regular site visitors and we had been going. Hastily, we noticed boys, loads of them from Orile coming all the way down to Alaba. The following factor, they stopped the three buses forward of us, then they confronted the BRT Bus, saying, “A maa ba bus yii je” (we are going to destroy this bus), and began throwing stones.
“All people was robbed contained in the bus as nicely. We had been all robbed. They stole all our telephones. I’ve to make use of another person’s cellphone. A number of the workers had been injured together with the seller within the bus,” the unidentified commuter mentioned.
Within the over-a-minute video, the bus windshields had been smashed with stones whereas the facet windshields had been fully shattered.
Reacting to the incident, Senior Particular Assistant on New Media to the Lagos State Governor, Jubril Gawat acknowledged that the “Lagos State Job Power led by CSP Tayo Akerele has deployed safety officers on BRT routes throughout the State, ranging from the Alaba Suru space the place a BRT was attacked by some suspected hoodlums lately.”
