DRIVER KNOCKS DOWN AND RUNS OVER LASTMA PERSONNEL AT LEKKI-AJAH AXIS

The driver of a green Toyota Sienna vehicle, with Reg. number, FST 901 AR, knocked down and ran over a LASTMA official, Jamiu O. Issa, later confirmed dead as at 20th April, 2022.

The Late Issa was said to have approached and accosted the Sienna vehicle driver who was driving against the direction of flow of traffic (One-way) facing oncoming vehicles from Chevron towards the Conservation Toll Plaza.

It was reported that Issa, the LASTMA patrol team leader in Ajah, who accosted the driver by standing beside the driver’s opened door, was knocked down and run over by the traffic offender, who had pretended to be alighting from the vehicle but changed his action, reversed the vehicle in a bid to escape, knocking down Issa with the door while the front tyre also ran over him, fatally injuring Issa in the process.

Issa’s colleague at the scene of the incident quickly put a call through to the Zonal head while some good Samaritans/eye witnesses pursued the escaping driver to the Chevron Waterfront area where he was apprehended and taken first to Ilasan Police Station, and eventually to Ajiwe Police Station, under which jurisdiction the event happened for proper investigation.

Also, according to other eye witnesses accounts, the Sienna driver also knocked down another person while trying to escape from the scene before being apprehended.

The fatally injured Issa was rushed to the Lagos Island General Hospital where it was confirmed that he was brought in dead (BID). His remains have been deposited at the morgue of same hospital.

The LASTMA General Manager, Bolaji Oreagba, who is grieving, commiserates with the family of the deceased officer. He has also said that in-spite of several appeals and warnings to the public to desist from assaulting and injuring government officials, some unscrupulous elements in the society who have refused all entreaties would be made to face the full wrath of the law.

Oreagba also noted that, this occurrence would not discourage the officers of the agency from continuing to carry out their duties and responsibilities as enshrined in the law that set up the agency. He therefore, appealed to the general public to abide by the Laws governing the State in order not to run foul of the law and its attendant consequences.

Filade Olumide
Asst. Director, Public Affairs LASTMA