Commercial bus conductor stabs LASTMA officer during traffic enforcement in Lagos

A commercialized autobus conductor has reportedly stabbed a Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, serviceman with a screwdriver during a regular postulation enforcement cognition astatine Ile-Epo Market, inward Abule-Egba, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, portion attempting to defy the apprehension of his conveyance for postulation obstruction.

The suspect, identified arsenic Lekan Olasunkanmi, was arrested and handed implicit to the constabulary pursuing the attack, portion the injured serviceman was rushed to a adjacent infirmary wherever helium received exigency attraction and is responding positively.

A connection by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, said the incidental occurred erstwhile a LASTMA patrol team, carrying retired its work of ensuring escaped travel of postulation and maintaining bid connected Lagos roads, impounded a Volkswagen commercialized autobus with registration fig LSR 989 XG for causing superior postulation obstruction astatine the engaged Ile-Epo Market axis.

According to the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, the operator of the commercialized autobus resisted the enforcement operation, aft which the conductor allegedly equipped himself with a screwdriver and attacked 1 of the postulation officers, inflicting a stab coiled during the confrontation.

Following the incident, the substance was reported to the Abattoir Police Division, wherever the fishy was taken into custody for further probe and imaginable pro...