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Viral voice notes reveal missing BRT passenger’s struggle with abductors – Brother
The family of a young tailor, Bamise Ayanwole, has raised the alarm over her alleged abduction by a driver of the Lagos Bus Services Limited.
The said 21-year-old’s whereabouts had been unknown since she boarded an LBSL bus, popularly known as BRT, at the Chevron area of Lekki en route Oshodi on February 25, 2022.
The victim, an indigene of Ekiti State boarded the bus at 7:30pm and became suspicious when the yet-to-be-identified driver told her to sit on one of the back seats.
A source, who did not want to be named, said Bamise, who became uncomfortable, sent out voice notes and a short clip to express her concern to one of her friends.
“On her way home, the driver picked up two men and one woman. This made her calm down a bit. Then she told us she would alight at Oworonshoki. We called her and noticed something was unusual about the way she was talking.
“We tried to reach out to her again but her phone was unreachable; then we waited a bit, thinking it was probably (due to a) low battery, only for her parents to contact us on Sunday that Bamise wasn’t home yet and since then we have been at the Oshodi BRT Terminal 3.
“We were told to sit and wait for the driver to come. The driver did not show up,” the source added.
In a series of voice notes exchanged between Bamise and a friend, she was heard telling the friend in Yoruba Language that the bus stopped to pick her up but did not pick other passengers.
Sensing danger, she was said to have made a short video showing the silhouette of a driver and what looked like the vehicle number.
The clip, which was obtained by The PUNCH, also showed that the bus was not well-lit.
Her mother was seen in a video trending on social media wailing in front of a bus numbered, 240257, in one of the terminals of the LBSL, said to be the bus Bamise had boarded.
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