Lagos arraigns BRT driver for manslaughter
THE Lagos State Government, has arraigned a Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, driver, Oluwaseun Osibanjo, before an Ikeja High Court for allegedly causing grievous harm and involuntary manslaughter by running into a moving train. Osibanjo was arraigned on a 16-count charge bordering on grievous harm and involuntary manslaughter for the BRT-train collision accident on March 9, 2023 at Shogunle Level Crossing, Ikeja. The prosecution led by the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, Dr Babajide Martins, told the court that the defendant ignored warning signals and ran into an oncoming train and negligently killed Oreoluwa Aina, Tolulope Emmanuel, Olayinka Rokosu, Ganiyat Salaudeen, Lasisi Isah and Victoria Dada. Martins further alleged that the defendant inflicted grievous harm on some of the BRT passengers including Bolanle Ogunbunmi, Ayomide Shobowale, Sarah Adeleye, Abiola Olarewaju, Esther Ekundayo, Samuel Fagbola Ismail Bakare, Ayuib Arowoye, Rilwan Abdulazeez and Shiyanbola Murtala. Accor...