Credit: CPS
The Lagos State Government has condemned the action of some Naval Ratings who mercilessly beat some LASTMA officials for apprehending a VOLKSWAGEN BUS they were escorting.
According to a post on the Twitter handle of the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Gboyega Akosile, the bus, with registration number LSD 73 XT was obstructing the flow of traffic at Onipanu inward Fadeyi on Ikorodu Road.
The driver of the bus managed to evade arrest when LASTMA officials approached him. The LASTMA team later tracked down the vehicle at Fadeyi inward Jibowu, where the driver was said to be discharging his passengers in the middle of the main carriageway under the cover of Naval Ratings on escort.
“When the commercial vehicle was eventually apprehended by LASTMA Team for clearly contravening the Lagos State Traffic Law, the Naval Ratings alighted from the commercial bus and attacked LASTMA Personnel.
“The Naval Ratings further beckoned on their colleagues who were passing by in another vehicle to join them in the physical assault of the LASTMA Personnel on statutory duties.
“All efforts by the policemen attached to the LASTMA Personnel to stop the fracas proved abortive.
“In the process of the attack, three (3) (Android) phones belonging to the LASTMA Personnel were snatched away by the Naval Ratings” the CPS said.
He said the apprehended commercial vehicle is in LASTMA custody.
