Body of lady who went missing after boarding BRT bus found in Lagos Island
Offending bus also found, but not the driver
The body of the 22-year-old fashion designer, Ayanwole Oluwabamise, who got missing after boarding a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Lekki, Eti-Osa Local Government, Lagos State, has been reported found by the Nigerian Police in Lagos.
The body of the lady was said to have been recovered by the Lagos Command of the Nigerian Police after it was alerted by residents in the Lagos-Island axis that a corpse was abandoned in the area according to TVC.
The body was reportedly recovered by Policemen attached to Ebute Ero Police Station and has been deposited at a mortuary within the axis.
There were reports online that certain body parts of the lady are missing, but this could not be verified at the time of filing this.
Microsecondnews reported that the police had earlier picked up two suspects in connection with the alleged disappearance of the lady.
Miss Oluwabamise Ayanwole worked as a fashion designer at Chevron Estate, Ajah and spent weekends at Ota, Ogun State, with her sister. She was returning to Ota when she boarded a BRT bus with number 240257 going to Oshodi at about 7 p.m. at Chevron Bus-Stop.
Sensing danger as the bus did not pick any other passenger at subsequent bus stops, Oluwabamise engaged a friend using voice notes on her phone.
The voice notes showed that the bus driver said he liked Oluwabamise and asked for her name and other details.
She told her friend to pray for her as she became suspicious of the bus driver and in response, the friend told her to alight at Oworonsoki bus stop, way before Oshodi bus stop.
Oluwabamise also sent a video to her friend showing how dark it was in the bus and said: “there are three men and one woman in the bus. The woman is sitting at the back. That’s the number of the bus in case. Please pray for me.”
That was the last that was heard from Oluwabamise.
The bus has been found parked with other BRT buses in their park.
A video shows the mother of the deceased wailing at the park beside the bus the deceased was said to have boarded.
She was speaking in Yoruba, lamenting that the company said they could not trace the driver.
She observed that the bus did not bear any sign of an accident and wondered what could have caused her death?
“So BRT” is currently trending as people expressed shock at their earlier belief that BRT was the safest way of moving around in Lagos.
Watch the video below.
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