No It was an irony of fate for an unidentified man last Sunday as he traveled safely over six hundred kilometers from Portharcourt, South South Nigeria to Abuja only to be robbed and murdered just a few meters to his home.
The victim who was returning from a business trip to Portharcourt arrived Lugbe, Abuja in the early hours of Sunday 27 July 2015.
Sources said that he called on his brothers to pick him up at the other side of the bus stop while he used the pedestrian bridge to cross over.
However, unknown to him, there were armed robbers on the bridge. During his encounter with the underworld men, he was stabbed with a sharp object and bled to death before help could come. The robbers were said to have made away with cash and mobile phones belonging to the victim.
Police investigation revealed that the robbers were people who scavenged refuse dumps in the daytime and turned night marauders afterwards.
A source at Lugbe police station disclosed that the culprits have been arrested and are now undergoing interrogations.
The scavengers known in local parlance as babanbola are reported to have been robbing and raping victims who find themselves using Lugbe pedestrian bridge at odd hours. A few days before the murder of the unwary traveller, a mother who was returning from a night vigil with her daughter watched helplessly as several babanbolas took turns to rape her.
Are there other spots or pedestrian bridges in Abuja where similar things are happening?
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