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<strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A 30-year-old woman, Precious Adebayo, yesterday, narrated how she
escaped from a suspected ritualist, Taiwo Balogun, who disguised as a
commercial bus driver.</span></strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Precious told Vanguard that at
about 8 p.m. on June 5, 2013, she boarded a commercial bus at Iyana Orile bus stop
in Orile Agege Local Council Development Area, LCDA.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">According to her, “it was
raining at the time. The bus driver (Balogun) was alone in the bus when I
flagged him down and told him I was going to Iyana Ipaja.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">“He stopped, picked me and sped
off. On getting to Mobil petrol station on Old Ipaja road, just before the
Lagos State exams board office, beside NYSC camp, he told me that because of
the heavy traffic at the Iyana Ipaja under bridge, he wanted to go through some
inner streets through Orile Agege LCDA office at Arigbanla. He said he would
come out close to Iyana Ipaja through Aboru junction and I agreed.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Precious said she became
apprehensive when it took the driver several minutes navigating through inner
streets without emerging anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">According to her, “I complained
that I was afraid as I no longer understood where we were and where the driver
was heading to. I, therefore, told him to drop me so that I could find my way
out to Iyana Ipaja bus stop.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">“But he reassured me that we
would soon emerge at the expressway where I will disembark. Shortly after this,
the driver suddenly stopped in a dark corner and told me that he wanted to pick
up something.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">“He then came down, entered the
vehicle from behind and grabbed me on the throat in a bid to choke me. I
struggled to free myself  but he held me tightly. He hit my face, head and
nose with a wheel spanner and inflicted grievous injuries on my face and head.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Precious said the suspected
ritualist attempted to slit her throat and cut off her breast, saying: “He used
knife in trying to cut my neck but did not succeed. He even tried to cut my
breast, but God rescued me. This happened at Canal, near Pleasure, after
Sawmill.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Vanguard gathered that luck ran
out on the suspect when his vehicle failed to start. And within that time
Precious regained some strength, pushed open the bus door and screamed for
help, which attracted people in the neighbourhood. When the driver noticed that
people were coming towards them, he abandoned his bus and Precious.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">However, the matter was
reported to a police team at Iyana Ipaja under bridge who then radioed Elere
police station, Agege. Officers from Elere Police Station then took Precious to
the scene of the crime in the night and people in the neighbourhood deflated
the four tyres of the bus.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Balogun was apprehended around
1:00 am the following morning, as he came back to stealthily remove his bus
(unknown to him that the case had been reported to the police).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The case has subsequently been
transferred to the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti Yaba,
where the suspect is undergoing further interrogation.</span></div>
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