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After stabbing a LASTMA cop, a Danfo driver goes insane and strips naked
He said: “Our enforcement team had successfully apprehended the driver while trying to escape after dangerous driving, brought out a knife and stabbed me in the process.
LASTMA and Nigeria Police officers arrested a driver of a danfo bus, a Volkswagen ‘T4’ with the license plate LSR 966 YE, for allegedly stabbing a LASTMA officer after being apprehended for a serious traffic offense near the Costain Round-About in Surulere, Lagos, yesterday.
The LASTMA officer who headed the enforcement squad, Olajide Olukoga, stated that the Volkswagen commercial ‘T4’ bus was seized and the driver was caught for picking up passengers on the main expressway, causing serious traffic obstacles to other road users around Costain inside Iponri.
He added that the enforcement operation was carried out around Costain roundabout inward Iponri after several warnings by the state government to commercial bus/private car drivers on the need to make use of designated bus stops before picking up or dropping passengers or co-travellers across the state.
He said: “Our enforcement team had successfully apprehended the driver while trying to escape after dangerous driving, brought out a knife and stabbed me in the process.
“After seeing the deep cut he had inflicted on me with the knife, he decided to strip himself naked and caused serious commotions before he was eventually arrested by Policemen from Iponri Police Station.
“After his arrest, dangerous weapons cutlass and knife were recovered from his commercial Volkswagen ‘T4’ bus by security officers.
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