Bamise: Deceased’s Elder Brother Accuses Officials Of Negligence, Expecting Bribe

Pelumi Abegunde, the brother of late BRT passenger, Bamise Ayanwola has accused officials in charge of the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit and the Police of treating them badly when they initially reported that the deceased went missing on the bus.

Abegunde said this during an interview on The Morning Show programme of Arise TV monitored by an24.

According to him, “When I got to the counter, the person there said he had a case he was handling at that time. I asked if he had watched the video Bamise made, he answered ‘and so what?’”

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Abegunde also accused the police of expecting them to pay a bribe, noting that they showed they were uninterested in the case immediately they didn’t give them money.

According to him, “After I came in on Monday, that same driver came in and he wasn’t apprehended even after we had reported him to their office. After an uproar by the sympathisers that went with me, they were speaking nicely, we felt a sense of relief that they will do their work.

“Unfortunately, when we got to Mosafejo station, they saw that we don’t have money to give them so they didn’t attend to us. When the LDSL board came, they attended to us. By the time they finished with the DPO of the station, they filed report of a missing driver, that wasn’t the case we took to them. We are not foolish or stupid. They treated us as if we were not important.

“If not for Bamise’s courage to take pictures and make videos, who knows whether the authority is aware they use that vehicle for such a thing? We were badly treated.”