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Pandemonium erupted on Saturday at Berger bus stop, Lagos State, after a
policeman, who was a passenger on a 14-seater bus end route from
Ibadan, Oyo State, reportedly stabbed a motor park tout, popularly
called agbero, to death.
The deceased was identified simply as Ahmed and was reportedly planning to marry in December.
The policeman was said to be serving in a command outside Lagos.
Punch
Metro learnt that one of Ahmed’s friends had stopped the bus with the
inscription, Success Express, and demanded N100 from the driver, who
reportedly declined to pay the money.
In the ensuing argument between the driver and the agbero, the
policeman, who was at the front seat, reportedly got off from the bus.
A Punch correspondent gathered that Ahmed had gone to the scene to know what transpired.
“But the policeman suddenly brought out a very sharp knife and stabbed
him (Ahmed) in the stomach. He held the policeman for a while and
slumped. He stood up, staggered and slumped again.
“The policeman put on trousers usually worn by riot policemen,” an eyewitness, Goke Adeleke, said.
Ahmed was said to have been taken in the bus to the Lagos State Accident
and Emergency Centre at the Ojota Tollgate, where he was confirmed dead
on arrival.
A friend of the deceased, who identified himself as Agberoko, said men
of the Rapid Response Squad at the bus stop released tear gas canisters
to rescue the killer cop.
Agberoko, who spoke in Yoruba, said, “The RRS men shot into the air and
also fired tear gas canisters to disperse us when we intercepted the
policeman.
“They rescue and took him into the Armoured Personnel Carrier stationed in the area.”
A Punch correspondent, who arrived at the scene shortly after Ahmed’s
corpse was brought back to the bus stop, noted that his friends went
violent, and vandalised the bus.
The angry mob also hurled stones at the RRS’ APC as the operatives drove off from the scene.
A trader, Taibat Adejare, who was in tears, said Ahmed was decent among his counterparts.
She said, “He just came out around 4pm today (Saturday). He ate a snack
with a bottle of drink. It was about an hour after he came out that the
incident happened.
“He was very peaceful and jovial. He didn’t force drivers to pay. The policeman stabbed him with a poisonous knife.
“I was joking with him some days ago that he should go and marry. He
said he was planning marriage already and that it would come up in
December.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos,
however, said the suspect was not a policeman, adding that the corpse
had been deposited in a morgue.
He said, “A group of social miscreants allegedly engaged one Sulaiman
Anafi, a driver in charge of a Mazda commercial bus with number plate,
XB 251 LEM, in a brawl at the Berger bus stop, inward Lagos, over
parking ticket.
“In the process, one of the passengers in the bus reportedly stabbed one
of the area boys in the area with a knife and he died on the way to a
nearby hospital.
“The suspect has been arrested. He is not a policeman.”
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