Moniya in Akinyele local government area of Oyo state is again in the news for wrong reasons, for quite some times now it has been cases of kidnapping and killing but yesterday 13 passengers were rescued by vigilante and police in abaedo a community close to Moniya
A passengers bus was said to have loaded 13 passengers going to Ikotun Lagos at Iwo road ibadan but rather than facing Lagos the driver face Moniya-Iseyin route
A police source confirmed to our reporter that the driver who claimed to have come from Ikotun this morning said he though the road lead to Lagos
He has since been arrested and detain at Moniya Police station where 11 of the 13 passengers have submitted their statement against him
one of the female passenger who claimed anonymity said’ We boarded the bus at Iwo road park and the destination was Ikotun in Lagos but after some minutes one of the passengers said the driver was heading into another direction, the woman insisted that the driver should stop but he didn’t but when we reached aba edo around Moniya, he was asked to fix his door and he parked as he was about opening his door the woman shouted and everybody alighted from the vehicle and the vigilante and police later surface and take us to the state
” It was God that save us, the man was adamant that he was on a right route when we told him , if not for the door he wanted to fix when he parked it would have been another story by now’ She concluded