•Vows to apprehend driver, others
Following a viral video which circulated on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, of a traffic officer, ASP Daudu Ajayi, attached to Abattoir Division, who was physically attacked, the Lagos State Police Command has commenced an investigation, with the aim of arresting the culprits.
In a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, was said to have been taken aback by the act of the driver and some individuals in the viral video and ordered that the case be thoroughly investigated, while the driver and his accomplices be made to face the full wrath of the law.
According to the PPRO, “the fact of the case is that on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at about 12:30pm, there was a case of hit-and-run serious accident involving a Dyna vehicle with registration number BDG 756 YA, which hit a Toyota Camry car with registration number KJA 281 GQ.
“As a result, a motorcycle rider, Ashiru Saadu, was affected and seriously injured.
“In the process, the driver of the Camry car waited but the driver of the Dyna vehicle escaped from the scene. This made the Traffic Officer to give him a chase, and he was stopped at Pipeline Area, Oko-Oba.
“The driver alighted from the vehicle, pounced on the Traffic Officer and broke a bottle on his head, which led the officer to sustain varying degrees of injury.”
Adejobi stated further that the Commissioner of Police reiterated his warning to the general public to desist from launching attacks on police personnel and other security agencies in the state, as such would be tactically resisted, while the attackers would be dealt with in line with the provisions of the law.
He added that Odumosu vowed to get the fleeing driver arrested and prosecuted, to serve as deterrent to others like him in the society.
The police commissioner also emphasised that the command would not tolerate any act of lawlessness in the state.
