The suspect, a soldier identified as Private Ezinne Benjamin, is being detained at the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, Victoria Island, Lagos. He is accused of beating to death a commercial bus driver, Bashiru Adebayo, following a minor squabble. Disagreement broke out between the soldier and the deceased driver after Benjamin refused to pay his transport fares despite entreaties from the bus conductor and passengers. Eyewitnesses said the soldier, who was not wearing uniform, was angered by the insistence of the driver that he had to pay up and in the heat of the ensuing altercation between them, he brought out his gun and hit the driver’s head with its butt.
In Lagos, military and paramilitary personnel always dodge paying transport fares whenever they board commercial buses, claiming they are staff.
The deceased driver was said to have challenged the soldier because he was not wearing his military uniform neither did he identify himself as a soldier.
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