The Police in Lagos have confirmed the arrest of a Bus Rapid Transport(BRT) driver, Andrew Nice, in connection with the death of 22-year-old Oluwabamise Ayanwole.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Monday.
Ajisebutu said the suspect was arrested by operatives of the Department of State Service(DSS) and has been handed over to the police.
“The driver, who was suspected to be responsible for the adoption and murder of Ayanwole, who got missing on board a BRT bus on Feb. 26, 2022 has been arrested by operatives of the DSS and has been handed over to the police,” he said.
He reassured the public that the suspect (driver) would soon be arraigned in court.
The Driver of the BRT that Bamise was in before she was missing and later murdered has this to say, do you believe him? Because i dont #JusticeForBamise pic.twitter.com/Dg3HcjkLpu
— Dami’ Adenuga (@DAMIADENUGA) March 7, 2022
“The suspect will be made to face justice for this murderous act,” he stated.
Ajisebutu appealed to aggrieved persons and sympathisers not to take the law into their hands as the command was doing everything legally possible to ensure justice.
The 22-year-old lady was found dead on Monday on the Carter Bridge by Ogogoro Community, on Lagos Island.
Andrew Nice,seaking said that he had no connection with Oluwabamise Ayanwole’s death but was only following instructions of her abductors who held him and Bamise hostage on the bus.
He said, “When those guys showed me their weapons, I couldn’t be myself anymore. Fears took over me and Ï only followed orders from the man with the gun who sat close to me.
“I followed the Carter Bridge, and around the overhead bridge, they ordered me to stop there. And when they ordered me to stop, I was asked to open the door, her assailants came down and started dragging her down from the bus.
“When I saw that she was crying for help, actually I was helpless and I had thought she was still in the bus holding on to one of the irons that could help keep her in the bus. In that process and with that thought, I moved on. And that is just the truth.”
