On Tuesday, a soldier was tragically killed when a truck from a logistics company ran over him at Orile bus stop, Iganmu, in Lagos.
The
driver was reportedly fleeing from some extortionists who were demanding money
from commercial bus drivers at the Orile end of the Badagry expressway.
The
driver, disregarding the accident, drove away recklessly from the scene. Other
soldiers who witnessed the incident pursued the fleeing truck.
It was
gathered that the soldiers eventually apprehended the truck at the Mile 2 bus
stop, though the conductor managed to escape.
Shola
James, a trader at Orile, stated that the soldiers returned the truck and
driver to Orile.
“The
truck’s back tyre crushed the soldier’s head. I couldn’t bear to look at the
body again,” she said.
Another
witness, a vulcanizer, claimed the soldier was on his motorcycle when the truck
hit him, killing him instantly.
Lagos
State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, stated that neither
the truck driver nor the truck was handed over to the police.
He
said: “After the incident, the DPO of Orile Police Station and his men visited
the scene and saw the soldier’s body. The soldiers returned with the truck and
driver but took them and the soldier’s body back to their barracks.”
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