Just In: How Lagos Bus Drivers Hack LASTMA Officer To Death -LASTMA GM
By Trek Africa Newspaper
The General Manager, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Olajide Oduyoye, has explained how some Lagos commercial bus drivers attacked and hacked an officer of the agency to death at Anthony area of Lagos State.
He added that the deceased, Obasu Godwin, alongside his colleague, Adeniyi Hakeem, were attacked by an operator of Suzuki commercial bus otherwise known as ‘korope’, and others at Anthony on Tuesday.
Oduyoye explained that Godwin and Hakeem were attacked with machetes and other dangerous weapons by the unidentified driver of a commercial bus, a development, he said, led to the death of Godwin.
He noted that trouble started when the commercial bus driver with registration number FKJ 452 YC, plying Bariga to Oshodi via the Ikorodu Road axis, was apprehended for contravening the Traffic Law of the State.
Angered by the officer’s action, the driver said to be an ex-convict, in cohort with some other drivers pounced on the officers, overpowered, and eventually hacked the deceased.
According to him, the sad fact about the whole saga was that the two officers were in mufti and on their way home, having completed their morning shift and closed for the day before the recalcitrant commercial bus drivers went berserk, seeking any LASTMA officers to attack for carrying out their statutory duties.
“Obazu was struck severally with machetes resulting in deep lacerations on the head and his eventual death, while Adeniyi Hakeem, who was also attacked in a similar fashion has been hospitalized and in a coma,” Oduyoye said in a statement made available to the Guild.
Details shortly…
Source: Guild Ng
