Earlyface

The danfo driver after he was killed by a
soldier at Obalende this morning
The unidentified danfo driver with vehicle
number LSD 451 XG parked at Obalende Bus
Stop, near the BRT bus park, was said to
have refused to move his vehicle from the
park when the soldier who was in a mufti
refused to pay any fare.
An argument was said to have ensued
between them during which the soldier,
said to be from Dodan Barracks in Ikoyi,
strangled the driver.
The soldier, it was learnt, attempted to run
after the deadly duel but commuters and
passersby who witnessed the scene
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 baying for the soldier's
blood.
Attempts by P.M.NEWS to ascertain the
identities of the soldier and the Danfo driver
proved abortive as at the time of filing this
report.