The 32-year old conductor,
Taye Ajayi, bit off a passenger’s ear after a
disagreement between both of them around Egbeda, Lagos.
The victim, Kabiru Olugbemi
boarded the bus, but paid N30 instead of the N50 fare for the route.
When he got to Micon bus
stop, along Egbeda road, he alighted from the bus but just as he was walking
away, the conductor grabbed his left ear, bit it off, and threw it on the
ground.
Olugbemi was immediately
rushed to a hospital with his chpped-off ear, but the doctors said the ear was
dead, and as such could not be reattached.
The issue was subsequently
reported to Idimu police Station, after which Ajayi was arrested and charged to
court.
He was charged with
inflicting permanent injury on the victim, and he pleaded not guilty to the
charge.
Mr P.E.Nwaka, the presiding
magistrate, granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like
sum.
He was remanded in prison
custody pending the time he fulfils his bail conditions, while the matter was
adjourned till 6 October.
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