Lagos Transport Tragedy: Bus Driver Gets Trial Dates, Remanded To Kirikiri Prison

• A bus conveying civil servants collided with an oncoming train in the morning of March 9, 2023.

• The Lagos bus-train collision accident involved 102 people, with two dying at the scene and four passing away at the hospital during resuscitation.

• The driver of the bus, who was blamed for the accident, has been arraigned on multiple counts of manslaughter.

Eko Hot Blog reports that Osibanjo Oluwaseun, the driver of a Lagos State Government Staff Bus, which collided with an oncoming train at Shogunle Railway Crossing, Ikeja, Lagos, on the March 9, 2023, has been remanded in the Maximum Custodial Center, Kirikiri, Lagos.

His remand came on Tuesday after the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions, Babajide Martins, arraigned the driver before Justice Oyindamola O. Ogala of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, Lagos.

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Martins told the court that the driver negligently killed six victims by ignoring warning signals and ran into an oncoming train.

He said the defendant also negligently inflicted grievous harm on 10 other passengers on the bus.

In a statement issued by the Lagos Ministry of Justice spokesperson, Mrs Grace Alo, late Tuesday, she disclosed that Osibanjo was arraigned on a charge compressed into six counts of involuntary manslaughter contrary to Section 224 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015 and 10 counts of grievous harm contrary to Section 245 of the Criminal Law 2015 respectively.

Mrs Alo also revealed that the defendant pleaded not guilty to all counts.

“Sequel to the unfortunate accident of 9th March 2023 between a Lagos State Government Staff Bus which collided with an oncoming train at Shogunle Railway Crossing, Ikeja on the 9th March 2023,” the statement reads.

“The Director of Public Prosecutions, has filed charges and arraigned the driver of the bus, one Osibanjo Oluwaseun, before His Lordship, Hon. Justice Oyindamola O. Ogala of the Lagos High Court, sitting at Ikeja, Lagos.

“The defendant was arraigned on a charge compressed into six counts of involuntary manslaughter contrary to Section 224 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015 and 10 counts of grievous harm contrary to Section 245 of the Criminal Law 2015 respectively.

“The defendant pleaded not guilty to all counts. His Lordship thereafter, on the application of the Director of Public Prosecution, remanded the defendant to Maximum Custodial Center, Kirikiri.”

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Meanwhile, Justice Oyindamola adjourned the matter to 26th May, 2023, 16th June, 2023, and 28th June, 2023, for trial.

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