thugs in Lagos on February 12th. Didn't even know this happened until
president Jonathan said it in a recent interview;
"I was surprised last night when the owner of Chisco, the company that
runs transport business between Lagos and the South East told me that
18 of his luxury buses were burnt down in Lagos by youths of a rival
party because my billboard was close to his facility. Is that the kind
of people that want to take over the running of this country? Is this
country going to be managed by people with that kind of background" he
said.
The fire was said to have started after some hoodlums took advantage
of a political campaign rally to throw substances suspected to be
explosives into the premises of the transport company in apparent
protest against President Jonathan's poster on a building beside
Chisco's head office.
A witness who identified himself as Stanley told Sun News last week;
"It was when the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign train was
passing during their political rally along Eko Bridge that some
hoodlums supporting the party, took advantage of the rally to throw
objects into the premises of the company when they saw President
Jonathan's billboard hung on the uncompleted building beside Chisco
Head Office, thinking the premises belongs to the Federal Government."
The building belongs to the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), a Federal
Government parastatal sharing a common fence with the leading
transport company.
--Sun news
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