It was a frightening narrow escape on Good Friday night for travelers on board an Abakaliki-bound 59-seater luxury bus, when armed robbers attacked them at Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, and set the vehicle ablaze with all the passengers on board. The dare-devil robbers had earlier stripped them of their belongings and locked the vehicle from the outside before torching it
But, what would have been the most horrific robbery scene in recent times turned out not to be, as the passengers were said to have smashed the glass windows, and climbed out of the bus before it was completely consumed by the raging inferno.
The management of Ifesinachi Transport Nig Ltd confirmed on Easter Sunday that the ill-fated bus belonged to the company and that the vehicle took off from Maza Maza in Lagos, on Good Friday, March 29, en route to Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. Speaking of the attack on Sunday, the Managing Director/CEO of Ifesinachi, Prince Emeka Mamah, said he was still in shock over “this new dimension to armed robbery which is now accompanied by terrorism.”
Also reacting to the incident, the National President of the Association of Luxury Bus Owners of Nigeria (ALBON), Mr. Nonso Ubajaka, bemoaned the rising cases of robbery and kidnapping targeted at members’ vehicles on various routes across the country lately.
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