An
unidentified soldier, yesterday morning allegedly beat a bus conductor (names
unknown) to death at Obalende in Lagos, for insisting that the soldier who
boarded his vehicle must pay his fare.
According
to reports, the unidentified danfo driver with vehicle number LSD 451 XG was
pounced on by the soldier who was in a mufti following a heated argument over
transport fare. Eyewitnesses
say the man had accompanied his wife to the park at Obalende to get a bus to
her destination.
Within a
moment, the late conductor and the woman, exchanged hot words over transport
fare. That made
the unformed man to react. He lost his temper and kept beating the guy, until
he died,” one account said.
He was
said to have dragged the deceased, raining blows on his head, stomach and
chest.
On
noticing he had given up the ghost, the soldier, it was learnt, attempted to
run but commuters and passersby who witnessed the beating arrested him and
told him to carry the corpse to the hospital.
Sensing
that the soldier was about to be mobbed, a policeman at the scene phoned his
colleagues at the Kam Selem Police Divisional Headquarters, Moloney Street and
four police patrol vehicles with policemen arrived the scene.
A
detachment of armed soldiers from nearby Dodan Barracks also arrived the scene
to prevent the culprit from being killed by the mob.
The
soldiers took away their colleague and the corpse to their barracks after dispersing
hundreds of people asking for the soldier’s blood.
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