A commercial bus-driver popularly known as "Danfo-driver" was on Sunday, 19th August, 2018 beating to a pulp by some officers of the Nigerian Police Force, around the traffic light at the Victorian Garden City (VGC) junction, Lekki, Lagos - Nigeria.
Eye witnesses who spoke with Roving Informant said the Police officers chased the commercial bus from Ajah area, and caught up with the bus at the traffic light. The officers, it was gathered bounced on the driver, beating him to stupor. One of the officers they said, even went ahead to hit the driver with his gun. The scenario attracted some area-boys in the area and as well as passers-by, who inquired what warranted such treatment. The Police reportedly said the driver knocked-down someone and ran-off. A claim passengers in the bus dismissed. According to the passengers, the Police wanted to collect some money from the driver, but he refused to stop, which resulted to the chase. Not satisfied with the beating, the Officers went on to deflate the tires of the vehicle and removed the battery.
In a bid to contest this mistreat, the driver stripped naked and clutched to the Police vehicle as the officers zoomed off. On getting to Berger bus-stop, opposite Ikota Shopping Complex, the Police officers reportedly tossed the driver off their vehicle and continued on their flight. This action inflicted more body injuries on the driver who fell hard on the coal tar.
When some of the bus-passengers, passersby and area-boys who chased the Police vehicle got to the spot where the driver was left for dead on the express, out of anger about the brutality they witnessed, barricaded the express way, causing a logjam.
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