15th November, 2010
A 69-year-old man, who was driving a Toyota Hiace bus has been beaten up by yet to be identified gunmen.
The victim, Mr.Musibau Sowami, was driving along Okota and when, in the front of Gideon International School, the driver of a Toyota Sienna bus overtook, driving against the traffic. The speediing Sienna swerved and in the process the trafficator of his bus was damaged. But when Sowami alerted the duo in the Sienna bus to the damage they had done to his vehicle, they pounced on him, hit him on the head and he fainted.
Speaking with P.M.NEWS, Sowami said: “I was coming from Victoria Island and at Gideon International School on Okota Isolo road, two people in a Sienna bus overtook me while driving against the traffic and damaged the pointer of the Toyota Hiace bus I was driving.
“When I told them to see the damage they had done to my vehicle, the other man beside the driver brought out a spanner and used it to break my head, and I fainted. I was thereafter rushed to a nearby hospital. These people began to boast that Mr. Hafiz Ringim (IGP) is his brother and that Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo, CP, Lagos is also his mother’s cousin.â€
“After beating me, he escaped but passers by pounced on the driver and beat him up when they saw me bleeding. The DPO at Okota Division was behind the suspects,â€Â Sowami added.
When P.M.NEWS tried to reach the DPO on phone, he refused to pick it up.
—Oluwole Adeboye
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