Police Arrest Driver For Stabbing Passenger To Death Over Fare

Lagos— Police Command has arrested a driver, Emeka Sunday for allegedly using a broken bottle to stab his passenger, Michael Ajibola to death.

It was said that both had an altercation over transport fare when the incident occurred.

Sunday reportedly conveyed Ajibola and five other passengers from Sango Ota to their destinations in Oshodi but on getting to the Airport Road bus stop, he told the remaining passengers in the bus to get off from his vehicle while promising to pay for their fare when they get another bus to convey them to Oshodi.

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An altercation was eventually ensured when the driver, who collected N500 for the fare to convey the passengers, including Ajibola to Oshodi, offered to pay them N100 each to board a bus from the Airport Road to Oshodi.

The passengers were said to have refused Sunday’s offer, saying that the journey from the point they disembarked to Oshodi would cost more than he was offering.

Still in the middle of the argument, Sunday got into a fight with Ajibola where reached for a bottle, broke it, and allegedly used it in stabbing Ajibola, who fell to the ground and got soaked in a pool of his blood.

Unfortunately, Ajibola was said to have died due to the injuries he sustained during the attack.

The driver was later apprehended and handed him over to policemen at the Shogunle Police Station by other passengers who witnessed the incident.