A Twitter user, Edward Onoriode, has narrated how a lady lost her phone for stubbornly refusing to use her seatbelt inside a commercial bus in Lagos.
He said that the lady, whose name he did not give, boarded the bus from CMS heading to Ikeja on Wednesday.
He added, quoting the driver of the bus, that the lady sat in the front seat and was told to use a seatbelt.
While she initially complied, she later removed the seatbelt along the way, despite the driver warning her against doing so.
Just after she did this, the bus was accosted by personnel of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), who towed the vehicle to their office.
The furious driver thereafter seized the lady’s phone, insisting that she must cover the cost of recovering the vehicle from the LASTMA office before she could get it.
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Onoriode wrote, “A Danfo driver and a young girl were causing a scene at Ikeja bus stop thereby obstructing free flow of traffic.
“I managed to park out of the road and confronted the driver to know why he seized the young girl phone.
“According to her Danfo driver, he said he loaded his bus from CMS. The girl sat in the front seat. Before he moved out of the garage, he told the young girl to fasten her seatbelt. She did.
“On getting to Allen Junction, the girl removed her seatbelt. The driver cautioned her to fasten her seatbelt until she dropped at her bus stop. The girl said the driver is too scared and he shouldn’t worry, after all, they’ve gotten to Ikeja already.
“The driver still insisted that she should fasten her seatbelt. She refused.
“Other passengers told her, she refused.
“Before they got to Ikeja Bus stop, LASTMA officials on Patrol double-crossed the Danfo and arrested the driver because the girl that sat at the front didn’t fasten her seatbelt.
“LASTMA drove the bus away. The girl came down and want to go her way. Driver and conductor refused.
“They collected her phone and told her to go and bail the bus from LASTMA officials and she must also pay their delivery today before they’ll return her phone to her.
“I asked the girl if all that the driver said was true. She accepted her fault.
“There’s nothing I could do because the bus is already in LASTMA custody. I just advised the girl to follow the driver to LASTMA office, bail the bus and pay the driver delivery.
“I can’t waste my pity on stubborn people who refuse to do the right thing.”
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