Nigerian taxi man found shot to death
Another taxi driver has been found shot to death. This time it’s thirty-five year old Nigerian, Tayo David Anjorin of Campus Avenue in Belize City. Police say on Thursday Anjorin’s common-law wife Margaret Miller reported that the day before Anjorin left their home around six-fifteen a.m. in his blue Toyota Corolla taxi and had not returned. She also said that she was told that Anjorin’s taxi was found extensively damaged around twelve and a half miles on the Northern Highway. On Saturday around four p.m. police found Anjorin’s corpse near the Burdon Canal Bridge on the Western Highway, fully clothed with gunshot wounds to head and chest. Today News 5 spoke with Anjorin’s friend and fellow taxi driver Abdul Gafar.
Abdul Gafar, Friend
“Well when he was alive he was an okay guy.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“The news comes as a shock to you?”
Abdul Gafar
“Yeah, a real shock.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“Are you concerned about your own safety?”
Abdul Gafar
“Sure, everybody here is concerned. All Nigerians are concerned.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“You think it’s only Nigerians? Because if you look a couple weeks ago and a couple months ago Belizean taximen were also killed.”
Abdul Gafar, Friend
“It’s not only Nigerians, the public in general. We’re not secure, especially taxi drivers.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“You all run late?”
Abdul Gafar, Friend
“I don’t really work late though because of my family.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“Is it because you think it’s not safe to work late?”
Abdul Gafar, Friend
“Yeah, that’s part of it.”
Police continue their investigation.
