The Lagos State Police Command has vowed to apprehend a
traffic offender who broke a bottle on the head of a traffic officer, Daudu
Ajayi, attached to the Abattoir Division of the Command.
In a viral video, the traffic offender was seen smashing a
bottle on the policeman’s head unprovoked.
A voice was heard egging on the traffic offender to smash
the bottle on the policemen’s head.
The moment a man appeared to break a bottle on a policeman's headpic.twitter.com/ntTrjaJMjE
— Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) April 21, 2021
The Lagos police command made this known in a statement titled
‘Police institute investigation into attack on traffic officer, vow to
apprehend fleeing motorist, perpetrators’ by its spokesperson, Olumuyiwa
Adejobi.
The police said an investigation had been launched into the
attack on the traffic officer.
Part of the statement read in part, “The Commissioner of
Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, was 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 involved in the
dastardly act be caused to face the full wrath of the law.
“The fact of the case is that on Wednesday 21st April, 2021,
about 12.30 pm, there was a case of hit and run serious accident involving a
vehicle with Reg No BDG 756 YA, which hit a camry car with Reg No. KJA 281 GQ,
and as a result a motorcycle rider, Ashiru Saadu, m, was affected and seriously
injured.
“In the process, the driver of the Camry car waited but the
driver of the Dyna vehicle with Reg. No. BDG 746 YA escaped from the scene.
Then, the Traffic Officer gave him a chase and was stopped at Pipeline Area
Oko-Oba, Lagos. The driver alighted from the vehicle, pounced on the Traffic
Officer, and broke a bottle on his head. The officer sustained varying degree
of injuries.
“The Commissioner of Police has again warned the general
public to desist from launching attacks on police personnel and other security
agencies in the state as such will be tactically resisted and culprits
(attackers) be dealt with in line with the provisions of the law.
“He has vowed to get the fleeing driver arrested and prosecuted
so as to serve as a deterrent to others like him in our society; and to
ascertain that the command will not tolerate any act of lawlessness in the
state.”
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