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MY BRAND OF CRAZY

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Is this an irony? I don't know. Moment of madness. Maybe. So what happened? The bus I took to Ikeja decided to take a detour which will make it bypass about 5 stops. Passengers for the next stop after point of detour began to protest, the usual Lagos way. They were very vocal in the face of exorbitant transport fare. A particular set of passengers, 2 women one of them pregnant stated they were ready for war if the bus boy (that's the posh way of naming a conductor) refuses to foot the bill for onward movement. To move the story faster, a scuffle occurred. The women wanted more refund than he gave. They tried to grab him. One of them grab him and tore his cloth in the process. He reacted with pushing and punching. All these was happening at a spot beside a waterway (what we call gutter). The bus boy – that’s the one we call conductor- got pushed into the gutter. Alarm! That infuriated me. It irked me. By the time the bus zoomed off I see the 2 women weren&#