When the Tinubu administration introduced LASTMA {Lagos state traffic management authority}, it was to manage the chaotic traffic situation in Lagos.
As it always happen to any good intended policy, Nigerians have a way of turning it upside down for their selfish interest.
Its a pity to say the least what happened today at ojuelegba when a LASTMA official lost his life.
Anybody who is frequent around Ojuelegba knows there are couple of road constructions going on around the area {kudos to Governor Fashola}.
A commercial bus who because of the construction stopped to drop a passenger where the LASTMA officer must have frowned at took off in order to escape arrest and in a bid to arrest the bus his life was cut short.
Eye witness account has it that the heavy duty machine carrying a slab was at work when LASTMA officer was running after the commercial bus. The red flag alert which normally signals danger was up and everybody stayed away from the caterpillar but the LASTMA officer was not aware of the danger. He ran into the heavy duty machine and died on the spot.
One is not condoning the attitude of the commercial driver but it should be noted that there are better ways to handle such situation. Personally i have witnessed a situation where police officer and LASTMA officer were dragging the steering wheel with the driver of a fully loaded commercial bus popularly called molue.
If not for selfish motive, situations like this could be avoided. All the law enforcement officer needs to do is get the registration number of the vehicle and this will safe life of the driver, passengers, the law officer and other road users.
What is your advise to other law officer to avoid situations like this.
