- By Kamil Opeyemi
It was a bizarre scene in the Ijebu Mushin area of Ogun state as some criminals ambushed a bus travelling to the South East part of Nigeria robbing passengers and setting the bus on fire.
According to the Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun, Omolola Odutola, the incident happened at Oke Ado Junction, in Ijebu Imushin, along the Ijebu-Ode-Benin Expressway.
“It happened in Oke Ado junction at Ijebu Mushin. A luxury bus of Mercedes Benz was burnt down. “The vehicle was coming from Maza Maza (in Lagos State) before it encountered the hoodlums,” the police spokesperson said.
The bus robbed was said to belong to Ifesinachi Motors. In a social media video, some of the affected passengers narrated how they were waylaid by the criminals who stole their belongings and set fire to the bus.
One of the passengers said, “Ifesinachi Motors, we were travelling in the night to come back to the East for Easter celebrations, and criminals attacked us in Ijebu Ode along the Ore-Benin Expressway.
“They robbed us of everything we had, they stripped some 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.