Driver of BRT where Lagos tailor got missing arrested

The driver of the Bus Rapid Transit bus where Oluwabamise Ayanwole, a 22-year-old tailor, got missing, has been arrested.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, confirmed this to Daily Trust.

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Ajisebutu said the driver, identified as Andrew Nice, would soon be arraigned for the alleged abduction and murder of the victim.

The PPRO, in a statement on Monday evening, said the suspect  was apprehended by operatives of the Department of State Services and handed over to the police.

He said, “We want to reassure the public that the suspect (driver) will be arraigned in court very soon to face justice.

“We therefore appeal to aggrieved persons and sympathisers not to take the law into their hands as the command is doing everything legally possible to prosecute this case.”

Ayanwola was said to be returning to Ota from Ajah on Saturday, February 26, when she boarded the BRT bus en route to Oshodi around 7pm at Chevron bus stop.

Sensing danger as the bus did not pick any other passenger at subsequent bus stops, Oluwabamise reportedly engaged a friend using voice notes on her phone.

The voice notes indicated that the bus driver said he liked Oluwabamise and asked for her name and other details.

She told her friend to pray for her as she became suspicious of the bus driver and in response, the friend told her to alight at Oworonsoki bus stop, way before Oshodi.