Bus Conductor Stabs LASTMA Officer in Lagos

A bus conductor on Monday allegedly stabbed a Lagos traffic manager during a routine enforcement at Ile-Epo Market on the Lagos-Abeokuta Road.

The General Manager of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Mr Olalekan Bakare-Oki, made this known in a statement in Lagos.

The general manager said that the conductor of a Volkswagon commercial bus stabbed a LASTMA officer when a LASTMA patrol team apprehended the bus for obstructing traffic at the market corridor inward Abule-Egba.

Bakare-Oki, who condemned the act, said that the officer was carrying out his lawful duty