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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: Gambrinus on August 02, 2009, 04:10:08 PM

Title: If You ever fancied travelling in Nigeria...
Post by: Gambrinus on August 02, 2009, 04:10:08 PM
QuoteNO fewer than 20 passengers were yesterday crushed on the Sagamu-Benin Expressway by a truck during a robbery operation.
[...]
The robbers were said to have ordered the passengers to disembark from the bus while a sizeable number of them were ordered to lie flat on the road as the hoodlums ransacked the vehicle and the other passengers unhindered.
A trailer, which was said to be on top speed and unaware of the dangers ahead, was reported to have run over the victims, killing 20 of them, before skidding off into the bush.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/01/20-passengers-crushed-during-robbery/

But as the Road Safety Chief points out. If people would just abstain from travelling at night this wouldn't have happened...
(Bonus, note that the article features portraits not of him, but of two other executives in snazzy uniforms, none of them mentioned in the article)
Title: Re: If You ever fancied travelling in Nigeria...
Post by: Siege on August 03, 2009, 02:15:58 AM
TIA


Title: Re: If You ever fancied travelling in Nigeria...
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 03, 2009, 04:55:52 AM
Quote from: Gambrinus on August 02, 2009, 04:10:08 PM
The robbers were said to have ordered the passengers to disembark from the bus while a sizeable number of them were ordered to lie flat on the road

Quote"Well, which is it, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? Mean to say, if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm a-gonna be in motion."