Bus driver, conductor mobbed for abducting 8 schoolchildren

Akorede Ogunjobi, and his conductor, Kazeem Adelere, were attacked by an angry mob for allegedly abducting 8 pupils of Oyes Faithful College, Ifo, Ogun State, and would have been lynched, but for the intervention of policemen who took them into custody.

According to Punchng, 10 pupils of the school had on Tuesday joined the commercial bus, after leaving the school. It was learnt that two unidentified men sat beside the driver, while the conductor manned the bus entrance.

After two of the pupils alighted, the driver was alleged to have refused to stop for other pupils. When the pupils indicated that they wanted to alight at the bus stop, the driver was alleged to have shunned their calls and continued speeding on the expressway.

The conductor was alleged to have stood at the bus entrance to prevent the pupils from escaping. One of the pupils in SS 1, Akorede Aliu, 13, jumped off the bus while on motion. .

Some minutes later, another male JSS 1 pupil, Ajibose Fawasi, 11, was said to have also leaped out of the bus, leaving behind six female pupils. A motorist was reported to have blocked the commercial vehicle’s path and forced it to a halt.

A lawyer, Isaac Durowoju, said he called the police to rescue the suspects from the mob, adding that injured pupils had been taken to the hospital.