It still beats my imagination how a bus driver was able to successfully resist the attempt by three men at the Iyana Oworo area of Lagos to hijack his vehicle, beating them black and blue, and leaving them with injuries.
Recently, I was on my way home from work around 6:30 pm, when we saw four men around Iyana Oworo engaged in fisticuffs. Our driver, who knew the commercial driver that was involved in the fight decided to slow down his vehicle to inquire about what was happening.
The driver fighting with the three men quickly hinted our driver that they had attempted to hijack his bus, and to frustrate their plan, our own driver suddenly stopped his bus to intervene. All our pleas to him not to stop the vehicle fell on deaf ears as he insisted on helping the other driver.
When he stopped and we alighted from the bus, we realised that the first bus driver, who could only be identified as Ese (blow), had already dealt with the robbers mercilessly. He had beaten and left them with swollen faces. Two of the suspected hijackers were noticed to have become worn
When he stopped and we alighted from the bus, we realised that the first bus driver, who could only be identified as Ese (blow), had already dealt with the robbers mercilessly. He had beaten and left them with swollen faces. Two of the suspected hijackers were noticed to have become worn out while the third one that appeared to still have some strength in him, took to his heels.
But the two drivers and some passengers in the two buses gave him a hot chase and eventually apprehended him.
Narrating how his ordeal in the hands of the suspected hijackers began, the driver simply identified as Ese, said the three men had pretended to be hiring him for some work at Ketu.
He said that they claimed that they needed a bus to convey members of their social club to an even at Ikorodu that night.
“After negotiation, we moved on. One of them was sitting beside me, while two others sat at my back. As we were about to descend from the Third Mainland Bridge to Iyana Oworo, the one beside me began to drag the steering with me,” he said.
But he said he dragged the steering with them to a junction.
The lanky driver, who had already been injured on his back with a sharp object, and also had bruises all over his body, still withstood the suspected hijackers, beating them with all the strength left in him.
The suspected hijackers were later handed over to some police men on patrol around the area.
Adewale Oluwaseun
Ketu, Lagos
