Wednesday, June 20, 2007. It was the first day of the nationwide strike
Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria -The Daily Sun, by Hola Oshunkeye -June 23, 2007: -- Called by the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, to protest the unilateral hike in fuel price and 100 percent leap in Value Added Tax, VAT, imposed by the expired Olusegun Obasanjo Administration at the twilight of its life... But the crisis crescendoed at about 7.35 a.m. when a molue bus descending the Western (Funsho Williams) Avenue-Jibowu overhead bridge joining Ikorodu Road was halted by the rampaging hoodlums who chased away the driver, conductor and passengers... Quite unfortunately, two ladies who were not quick in disembarking and they got ‘arrested’ and trapped inside the bus, and before you could scream ‘Yar’Adua’, the sons of the devil had torn the ladies cloths... “They raped the ladies inside the bus in broad daylight,” an eyewitness told Spectacular Encounters categorically shortly after the dust settled. A female resident in Jibowu, who identified herself simply as Basirat, was close to tears as she corroborated the eyewitness account. In addition to the horrifying rape, the lady worried about a bigger problem. “Most of the boys that perpetrate this kind of evil are usually drug users and sex perverts,” she said. “And chances are that they might have been infected with HIV. You can imagine the fate that awaits those they raped. It is like an instalmental death sentence. They should rot in jail. Happily, the police arrested some of them. They should face the full wrath of the law”...
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