Photo: Soldier Beats Bus Conductor To Death Over Transport Fare In Lagos

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.