Tobias Sylvester
Comfort Ayanwole, the mother of 22-year-old fashion designer, Bamise Ayanwole, has cried out for justice after her daughter was found dead after boarding a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) vehicle being managed by the Lagos Bus Service Limited.
Bamise Ayanwole’s Death
KanyiDaily had reported how Bamise was found dead on Monday, March 7 – nine days after she was declared missing after she boarded a BRT bus from Chevron Estate in Ajah, which was going to Oshodi at about 7 p.m on Saturday, February 26.
Andrew Nice, the driver of the BRT bus who was on the run when the news broke, has been arrested by officers of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Ogun state.
While being paraded by the police on Monday, the 47-year-old driver denied abducting Bamise, claiming they were attacked by three gunmen who boarded the bus with the now-deceased lady during the trip.
However, a video captured after he was arrested showed the moment Andrew was confessing to having carnal knowledge of Bamise before she threw herself out of the moving bus because of the “dirty acts” he had done.
Bamise’s Mother Demands Justice
Speaking with journalists at her residence, the deceased’s mother accused Andrew of lying about her daughter’s death, stressing that the BRT bus driver was “saying things that he was directed to say.”
Comfort Ayanwola, who hails from Ekiti State, asked the Lagos and Ekiti governments to work together to ensure justice is served in the case of Bamise.
“Oluwabamise, the daughter who the Lord gave me, boarded the Lagos government BRT bus and she has been declared dead. I can’t see her again,” she said in Yoruba while crying.
“My desire is justice. I want true justice that will not be hindered by those in higher authority.
“I am from Ekiti. I want the Ekiti state government to collaborate with the Lagos state government to get justice for me. I don’t have any influential person aside from God.
“If not God that said it is time for him to be caught; the phone she was using before got spoilt. Before she got a new phone, I could barely hear her whenever she called me with her old phone.
“She bought a new phone via payment by installment some days ago. Last Saturday made it 15 days since she bought the new phone. It was the phone she used to message her friend about happenings inside the BRT bus.
“I want the Lagos state government and all Nigerians to stand for us to get justice. This is not the first time that BRT bus has been used to murder people. My daughter’s case brought everything out.
“I heard it from the news that the BRT bus driver is saying this and that. He is being directed to say those things. He is the one who abducted and killed my daughter.”
Meanwhile, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu had vowed that no stones will be left unturned in the investigations and arrest of everyone found culpable in the kidnap and death of Bamise Ayanwole.
