Lagos,Nigeria : Soldiers in Lagos state, Nigeria this morning took to the street of Lagos state and beat up innocent citizens after a news filtered to the soldiers that one of its soldiers was hit by a bus owned and operated by Lagos state government.
The problem have reported to have started when a BRT bus ( Bus Rapid Transit) hit a soldier on a motorbike. The soldiers heard the news and throw caution to the wind as they moved to the Ikorodu road and stopping all moving BRT buses, ordering the drivers down and giving them a beating to remember. Also, passengers are ordered out and ask to go far away from the scene. Some of the passengers that tried to be brave by taking pictures or videos of the scene had a little piece of cake of the drivers too.
Eye-witnesses reported that 2 citizens were beaten mercilessly and a guy with a phone taking pictures and videos was beaten and his phone smashed. The BRT buses were smashed with sticks from the road side and stones were thrown to disperse the on-lookers of the horrible sight.
The soldiers were shouting at the top of their voices that people should produce the driver that hit one of their men. But the driver ran away to seek refuge at a nearby estate. When the soldiers could not find the driver, eye witness reports that the soldiers pounced on the security men guiding the estates and beat him mercilessly and he was arrested for hours before released weak and traumatized.
After all this sad event, the sodiers then took to the street of Lagos chanting victory song. No press release from the defence head quarter about the event as at the time of this report.
Nigeria is a country with 250 missing girls and soldiers die in the northern part of the country everyday. Shekau is still a threat they fail to quench for 3 years, when the name of Boko Haram is called at few metres away, they shiver down their spine. So what is victorious about their actions in Lagos state, Nigeria today ?
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Leave a comment if you saw all went down or what is your opinion on this issue?