By Damilare Adeleye
It was a dramatic scene on Sunday as a commercial bus driver was arrested after stabbing a Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) official and later striped himself naked.
It was learnt that LASTMA officers had apprehended the driver for picking passengers on the expressway, and causing traffic obstruction around the costain round-about area of Lagos.
After unsuccessful attempt to escape, the driver was said to have brought out a knife and stabbed one of the officers.
Upon sighting the deep cut he had given the LASTMA officer, the driver stripped himself naked, thereby causing serious commotion, before he was eventually arrested by police men from Iponri police station.
Adebayo Taofiq, Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, made this known in a statement issued on Sunday.
“The enforcement operation was carried out around costain round-about inward Iponrin after several warning by the government to commercial bus/private car drivers to make use of designated bus-stops before picking or dropping passengers/friends across the State,” the statement said.
According to the statement, the driver “would be immediately prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to other recalcitrant drivers.”
