I boarded a LAGBUS headed to CMS from Festac town this morning on my way to work. As I was minding my business (trying to catch up on some sleep), I was suddenly woken up by a sudden jerk of the bus. Then I heard driver of the bus talking in a loud voice saying, “…What is wrong with people sef. People are not just patient, see this man. So because he doesn’t want me to enter his front, e dey enter bush”. Before I could digest this, a dark middle-aged man in plain clothes brandishing a walkie-talkie came to harass the driver. Before the driver could say anything, this ‘so-called’, self-acclaimed military man got angry, raining insults on the driver, threatening to deal with him. While this was going on, all the passengers in the bus including me asked the driver to ignore the Samanja wanna-be so we could continue on our way to walk. But since the man would not stop harassing the driver, he lost his cool and started trading words with.
The driver finally heeded our advice and stopped talking. But Samanja was not yet done, he got into his Toyota 4 Runner with car registration number BW 616 KTU blocked our bus, got out, went the policemen by Orile Police Station and asked them to arrest the driver of our bus. When we saw the policemen heading for our bus, we were happy thinking we would finally get justice but to our surprise, the policemen came and instructed our driver get out of the bus. Before we could say Jack, on-lookers had gathered, watching; a soldier was by the driver’s door trying to force the door open.
At this point, the passengers lost their cool and insisted that the driver would not open the door. A few guys in the business actually volunteered to run the bus over the car. Thank God they did not succeed. When Samanja saw that the passengers were not bulging and we were not ready to listen to the policemen’s pleas to us asking the driver to come out of the bus (to be beaten by the soldiers that had started gathering); and there was no way him and his cronies would lay hands on the driver, he shamefully got into his car and drove off.
Though Samanja didn’t have the last laugh, he succeeded in reminding us-citizens- how lawless Nigeria can be because while this was going on, traffic was being held up and I can bet you that over half of the passengers got to work late this morning.
You know what was really ironical, Samanja who would not allow one bus go before him ended up allowing dozens of cars go while wasting the time he was supposed to have saved (watch video and photograph of one policemen asking the driver to get out of the bus). What foolishness!
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