Commercial bus driver stabs LASTMA officer in Lagos

Damilola Ajibola

A commerical bus driver have been apprehended by operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, for stabbing a LASTMA officer while on official duty.

The driver, whose name was not disclosed in a statement issued by the agency’s Director, Public Affairs, Adebayo Taofiq, said the driver was arrested for  serious traffic obstruction around Costain in Lagos on Sunday.

The driver, was reported to have been picking passengers on the main expressway thereby causing serious traffic obstructions to other road users around Costain inward Iponrin in Lagos.

He was said to have made “dangerous driving attempts to escape before he brought out knife and stabbed” the officer.

“After seeing the deep cut he had inflicted with the knife, he decided to stripped himself naked and caused serious commotions before he was eventually arrested by Police men from Iponri Police Station,” the statement added.

After his arrest, dangerous weapons – cutlass and knife – were recovered inside his commercial Volkswagen ‘T4’ bus by security officers.

The government had confirmed that the arrested driver would be immediately prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to other recalcitrant drivers.