Thursday 27 September 2012

Latest News: Police arrest driver over conductor’s death

The police have arrested a bus driver at Shereti Village in Kabusa,
Federal capital Territory, for allegedly killing his conductor, Bala
Akuki, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The suspect was said to have fought the conductor for allegedly
stealing N5,000 from their daily till.According to a police source,
the suspect denied the allegation, saying that the conductor died of
stomach upset.

However, a neighbour told the police that the driver had a serious
fight with the conductor a night before the conductor died. The
neighbour said he over-heard the driver and the conductor
fighting in the night over the alleged missing N5,000.

"They were engaged in a serious fight,'' the neighbour was said to
have told the police. NAN learnt that preliminary investigations by
the police revealed that the conductor might have been strangled. The
source said the police would soon arraign the suspect.