Photos: 18 Chisco Luxury transport buses burnt down in Lagos

Pictures show Chisco Luxury buses
allegedly burnt down by political 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 Goodluck 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.