Bus Driver Kills Inspector by Pushing Him off Speeding Vehicle in Lagos

 

A 40-year-old bus driver, Moshood Ekunsumi has been arrested by Police in Lagos state for allegedly killing a police inspector, Stephen Nzerem, on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, while the conductor is still at large. The driver plied the Airport Road area, when a police team was said to have flagged down the bus along the road, with the aim of going on an operation with it. Ekunsumi sensed the idea and drove off, but the deceased was said to have jumped onto the vehicle to apprehend the driver.

The driver was said to have taken the victim away and was speeding when another vehicle crossed his path and he stepped on the brake pedal. It was learnt that although both the policeman and the conductor were flung off the bus as the brake was applied, only the inspector died. His skull was said to have been smashed by an oncoming trailer and he died on the spot. The driver and the conductor fled the scene and abandoned the bus. The police, however, arrested the owner of the vehicle. The matter was subsequently transferred to the State Department of Criminal Investigation, from where investigations led to the arrest of Ekunsumi.

The suspect, was, however, arraigned before an Ebute-Meta Magistrate’s Court on two counts of murder. The charge read in part, "That you, Moshood Ekunsumi, and one other at large, on August 26, 2015, at about 8.30am, at Jakande bus stop, on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did unlawfully kill one Inspector Stephen Nzerem, aged 51, by pushing him out of a fast moving commercial bus." The police prosecutor, Cousin Adams, said the offence was punishable under sections 231, 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011. The defendant’s plea was not taken. The matter was adjourned till Monday, January 18, 2016, for ruling.