A Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos State has ordered that BRT bus driver Nice Andrew Omininikoron be remanded for 30 days.
Andrew was arraigned and charged with the violent rape, murder and mutilation of the body of his passenger, Oluwabamise Ayanwole.
At the end of today’s hearing, Chief Magistrate, O.A. Salawu ordered that Ominnikoron be remanded in Ikoyi Prison for 30 days.
She stated that the suspect be held in police custody following the legal advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
The 4-count charge was read to the defendant but his plea was not taken to court.
Salawu adjourned the case until April 11 for DPP advice.
In a similar development, another female victim told Punch that Andrew Omininikoron raped her on November 25, 2021, in the same bus.
According to the lady, who was a salesgirl at a shop in Ajah, after she closed from work around 8:00pm, she boarded the BRT bus driven by the suspect.
She said Nice was to convey her from the Alesh Bus Stop close to Jubilee Bridge, Ajah, to Jakande, along the Lekki Epe Expressway, when he decided to park the bus and rape her, after threatening her with a knife.
According to her, “While on our way, he switched off the light of the bus, but the AC was on. But as we approached the first toll gate coming from Ajah, he suddenly parked the bus. He then told me to come and sit at the front and started asking me different questions.”
A third lady claims the same driver violently raped her at night from the same route after she fled into his bus, away from armed robbers who accosted her.
She alleged that made a report to a police station but no investigation was carried out.
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