Soldiers attack on BRT buses: Fashola sets up panel to probe incident

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• Given 60 days to summit report

Barely 17 days after some suspected soldiers in Lagos went wild, burning about eight Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) buses on Ikorodu Road, the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola Monday constituted a tribunal of enquiry to probe the cause of the incident.
Fashola had earlier described the July 4 incident as unfortunate and disappointing, saying he would reserve his comments on the incident until he receives a formal report from the military authorities.
The soldiers were said to have gone wild after one of them was killed by a LAGBUS bus on BRT Lane. The accident which occurred around Palm Groove section of the road led to the burning of several BRT buses by the suspected soldiers.

The three-man panel inaugurated Monday is chaired by Justice Ebenezer Adebajo, a retired High Court Judge and has Mr Nurudeen Ogbara, a lawyer and Mr Jude Igbanoi, the Deputy Law Editor of Thisday newspapers as members.
According to the Governor, the panel members are to investigate the cause(s) of the accident and how the victim died, ascertain the actual perpetrators of the mayhem and submit its findings to the government within 60 days.
Nigerian Army authorities have consistently insisted its officers were not responsible for the violence, blaming it on opportunistic hoodlums around the scene.
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