Lagos police: BRT bus attack not robbery, we’ve arrested suspects

The Lagos State Police Command says the recent attack on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in the Orile area of the state was not a case of armed robbery.

The command said the BRT bus attack which occurred on Wednesday, August 14, 2024, was a reaction by some motorcyclists to the seizure of their motorcycles.

The police said the motorcyclists, whose motorcycles were seized, were the suspects who allegedly attacked a BRT bus on Wednesday.

The command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known in Lagos on Friday, August 16.

Hundeyin disclosed that the Lagos State Taskforce on Environment and Special Offences, Enforcement Unit, raided commercial motorcyclists plying the BRT lanes and other prohibited roads and seized some motorcycles.

He said some of the motorcyclists were those who resisted the police because of their positions but were arrested during the raid.

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The police spokesman said: “Some of these motorcyclists got angry and mobilised themselves to protest and the nearest Lagos State Government facility they saw around was the BRT coming.

“They forced the driver to stop and attacked the bus. The driver was not bold enough to drive through them; he waited and ran out of the bus, while the riders vandalised the windows of the BRT.

“There are claims that some people were robbed in the bus, nobody has come forward to the police to report that.”

The Lagos State Taskforce on Environment and Special Offences, Enforcement Unit, on Tuesday, impounded 164 motorcycles on the state’s highways.

The motorcycles, according to the taskforce, contravened the Lagos State Road Transport Sector Reform Laws of 2018 which prohibits motorcyclists from using all highways in the state.

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