Conductor Kills Man A Week Before His Travel Date To The US Over N50 (Photos)

Babatunde Omoyeni, a web designer who
planned to travel on the 10th of December
to spend his Christmas and New Year
holidays in the United States of America,
has been killed in Lagos over N50.
After obtaining all travel documents, he
boarded a bus on Saturday and gave the
conductor N500, but the conductor told
him he didn’t have N450 change, because
the fare was N50. When they got to the bus
stop, Omoyeni demanded his change and a
fight ensued.
An Alfa in the bus intervened and the fight
ended. But the conductor, who was still
upset by the incident followed the victim to
his house unbeknownst to the victim.
It was learnt that the conductor identified
as Eletu, armed with a broken bottle,
banged on the gate of the victim’s house.
A source said:
“As the deceased opened the gate, Eletu
stabbed him. Babatunde took to his heels,
but the conductor chased him.
Unfortunately, he fell down and the
conductor stabbed him repeatedly,” he
added.

The victim’s younger sister, Blessing
Omoyeni, said his brother would not have
died if he was rescued on time.
She said he spent over one hour in a pool
of his own blood before he was rushed to
the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi
Araba.
She said: “Nobody was ready to assist him
to the hospital. A man had to throw himself
in front of a commercial bus and asked the
passengers to disembark, before he could
get help.
“He was rushed to LUTH, but they were
turned back at the gate by a doctor who
pronounced him dead on arrival around
12am.
“People started beating the conductor and
almost killed him before he was rescued
and taken to the Aguda Police Division.”
It was learnt that the victim’s corpse was
deposited at the Isolo General Hospital
mortuary.
His girlfriend, Temiloluwa Ogundayo, said
Babatunde was preparing for their
engagement and recounted the bizarre
encounter she had with him after his
death.
She said: “We have dated for over one year
and he told me to meet my sister to ask for
the requirement for our engagement. He
said we would go there on Monday.
“On that Saturday he called me around
5pm to prepare food for him that he would
soon be home. I had done everything and
was waiting for him in the house till 11pm
when I drifted off into sleep.
“Around 1am, he came in and slept beside
me. He rubbed my head with his hand and
I asked him if he had eaten his food, but he
said I should not bother, that he was fine.
“I went back to sleep and it was around
6am that somebody called me and asked if
I knew he was dead. I jumped up and
looked around the bathroom and kitchen
to know if he was there, but I couldn’t find
him.”
The conductor said the victim attacked him
first.
He said: “I am also a driver and I had
parked my bus at about 7pm when I saw a
co-driver who offered to take me home. “It
was along the way that he decided to pick
passengers and there were eight of them in
the bus.
“I collected money from seven of them, but
he refused to pay and said he knew me on
the street.
“It was at the bus stop that he broke a
bottle and stabbed me in the forehead and
cheek. I also got the same bottle, but
unfortunately I stabbed him in the neck
and he died.”
The case is still ongoing