Breaking: Lagos Court Sentences BRT Driver to Death by Hanging Over Bamise’s Murder

A Lagos State High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square sentenced a driver, Andrew Nice Ominikoron, to death by hanging.

Ominikoron, a Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, was sentenced to death after killing Bamise Ayanwola, a 22-year-old fashion designer.

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Sherifat Sonaike, the trial judge, delivered the verdict on Friday.

Ominikoron and others, who are still at large, were charged of planning to rape and kill Bamise.

In February 2022, Bamise boarded a BRT bus but never arrived at her destination.

Security personnel later discovered her naked body by the roadside.

The driver of the BRT she boarded was subsequently arrested and charged with murder.

The driver, Ominikoron, pleaded not guilty, but was convicted and condemned to death.