Nigerian Army spokesperson, Olajide Olaleye,
denied that the soldiers set the bus ablaze, In his reaction to the crisis. He said:
“It’s not
true that the soldiers destroyed buses or set any bus on fire. What happened
was that a BRT bus knocked down a soldier and killed him. As usual in Lagos,
area boys gathered and a few soldiers stopped at the scene as well.
The GOC has
dispatched military policemen to the scene to help restore law and order,” Mr.
Olaleye said.
However
according to other witnesses, the soldier was knocked down by the bus on the
BRT lane but was not killed. They said he made a phone call after he was
knocked down; and refused to listen to pleas from those at the scene to forgive
the driver of the bus.
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“The army
officers who gathered there told us that the bus driver and the army officers
were struggling for supremacy on the road, the driver wanted to push him away
from the road and in the end, he hit him,” said Olalekan Ajayi, a witness.
The accident
prompted army officers, including those from the Nigerian Army Ordinance Corps,
some kilometers away, to rush to the scene.
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