Four weeks after a medical student was killed by a hit-and-run
driver, his spirit has tracked the suspected killer down in a most
unbelievable manner.
The driver was using the same road when his bus broke down at the
exact spot where he was said to have hit the student a month
ago.
The victim, Oki Michael Ibelere was going home in the evening on
April 18, when he was crushed by the driver in the Ojo area of
Lagos.
Identified as Kazeem Adisa, the driver picked up Ibelere, who just
gained admission to study Medicine at the University of Port
Harcourt and dumped him in a bush near Mile 2, in Lagos.
The driver and conductor were passing the same spot where they hit
Ibelere when their vehicle suddenly stopped. One person who had
seen the bus hit the boy rushed to alert some policemen who were
nearby.
The eyewitness said: "The boy was crossing the road when they hit
him. I saw them pick up the boy and zoomed off. I wanted to
confront them but it was too late. However, I noted the
registration number of the bus.
"As I was sitting outside on Tuesday, a bus broke down and the
driver came down. I took a closer look at it and realised that it
was the same bus that hit the boy. I shouted to policemen to help
me arrest them. It was after their arrest that I learnt that the
boy had died."
The suspects told Daily Sun that it was fear that made them dump
the victim in the bush.
According to Adisa, they had taken Ibelere to an hospital but he
was refused treatment because they had no police report.
He said: "On our way to obtain the police report, I felt his pulse
and realised that he was dead. That was when I panicked. Akanbi and
I agreed that if we took his corpse to the police, we would be in
serious trouble. So, we decided to dump it in a bush at Mile
2."
His conductor, Akanbi, 23, said that when the accident occurred,
Adisa ran away.
"He ran away because he was afraid. I was the one that drove the
boy to the hospital. Adisa later met me at the hospital. There was
no identity card on the boy, so we could not locate his
house."