The woman, Mrs. Abimbola Oriade, said she was attacked by a policeman in mufti in the presence of other policemen.
Oriade alleged that she was beaten because she and other passengers attempted to criticise the driving skill of an RRS officer. She said: “We would have been killed, but for the intervention of God. When we complained at their office, they attacked me.”
According to witnesses, a commercial bus was going to Agege-Pen Cinema when a lone RSS vehicle marked NPF 408 D, made an illegal U-turn hit the bus and caused bodily harm to the passengers of the bus. The driver of the bus, sensing the possibility of injuries to passengers, went after the RSS van. The van drove into the RRS office on SUCO Road. It was there that trouble started. Oriade said that she was beaten along with another passenger.
When contacted, the RRS Commandant, ACP Babatunde Disu, denied the allegation. Disu said he had conducted investigation and discovered that none of the RRS vehicles was marked NPF 408 D. But narrating her ordeal, Oriade said: “I was in a commercial bus, heading to Agege-Pen Cinema, when the RRS van suddenly made an illegal U-turn in front of our bus. The RSS driver stepped on his brake, reversed and hit our bus, causing our heads to knock against one another and some against the body of the bus.
“The RRS van just took off without checking to see if we were okay. The driver of our bus pursued him. When the drover caught up with him in the traffic, he made another illegal Uturn again and ran into their base on SUCO Road, Abattoir.
A policeman at the gate, Monday Okon, refused to allow our bus to follow him into the base. “We all alighted from the bus and stood in front of the RRS office. We were explaining the near-tragic accident to the officer at the gate, when one of the officers in mufti just came and just pounced on me. He started beating me and another passenger. After slapping and hitting us repeatedly, he said that we should go and do our worst.”
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