Car owners abandon vehicles as armed robbers strikes again on Lagos-Ibadan Express way

Many people were said to have abandoned their vehicles on the popularly known Lagos-Ibadan Expressway at the Warewa long bridge on Wednesday after robbers attacked them in a gridlock.

A motorist said “There is confusion on the bridge. Many of us are outside our cars. We suddenly heard that the robbers had attacked again and people started fleeing their vehicles. Some of the hoodlums were not armed with guns. We decided to get stones with which we would attack them. We are standing outside now, just in case of any attack.”

Another motorist, a woman identified only as Adebola, said the contractor handling the rehabilitation should remove the dividers to ease the traffic so that robbers would not take advantage of the gridlock to attack commuters.

She said, “The contractor should remove the dividers and ease the traffic. Those robbers are using the opportunity of the traffic to unleash mayhem on motorists. It should not be so.

“The hardship these dividers cause alone is enough reason to remove them. If there will be reconstruction at that end, it should be in the daytime. As soon as night comes, the contractor should not allow traffic to build up because the robbers take advantage of that.”

A police source attached to the Warewa Police Division, however, told one of our correspondents that the long bridge was “flooded with policemen,” adding that there was no robbery on the bridge.

He explained that the traffic on the road was caused by vehicles which broke down along the bridge.

He said, “The police have been patrolling that long bridge. There is no robbery. The problem is that many residents of Arepo and Warewa, who have nowhere to make a U-turn, are forced to join the traffic on the long bridge and that increases the number of vehicles on the bridge.”

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