In a hitherto unheard of kind of robbery incident, gunmen attacked a luxury bus with passengers, robbed the occupants and set the vehicle ablaze.
The novel incident happened in the early hours of Saturday on March 30, to a luxury bus owned by Ifesinachi Motors heading to the east with passengers, from Maza Maza in Amuwo-Odofin area of Lagos State.
The passengers were East-bound for Easter festival when at around 2.00am at Oke Ado Junction, Ijebu-mushin, along the Ijebu-Ode-Benin Expressway the gunmen attacked the 59-seater bus.
The account of the incident, and moment after all the damage has been done captured with phone camera, and posted on social media with video of the burning bus, said the robbers having disposed the occupants of their belongings locked them up in the vehicle and set it ablaze.
According to the report by one of the passengers, “Ifesinachi Motors, we were travelling in the night to come back to the East for Easter celebration, and criminals attacked us in Ijebu Ode along Ore-Benin Expressway.
“They robbed us of everything we had, some they stripped half-naked. They locked us inside the 59-seater luxury bus and set it ablaze. We thank God that we later escaped; nobody died, but everything we had was collected.
“We thank God that we didn’t lose anyone but we lost everything we were travelling with and some sustained injuries.
“This is Ifesinachi Motors that we are travelling with on Friday night and this attack happened around 2am.
“They stripped us half-naked. You can see it; the people in the vehicle are completely stranded. There are some people who were macheted and some who broke their legs. We have children among us.”
