A LASTMA officer was stabbed by a bus conductor during a routine enforcement operation at Ile-Epo Market on the Lagos-Abeokuta Road, prompting strong condemnation from the agency

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

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

The general manager said that the conductor of a Volkswagen 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.

“The officer was carrying out his statutory responsibility of ensuring unobstructed vehicular movement and maintaining order on Lagos roadways. The driver of the commercial vehicle vehemently resisted lawful enforcement procedures.

In a shocking escalation of events, the vehicle’s conductor armed himself with a screwdriver and violently attacked a LASTMA officer, inflicting a stab wound during the altercation,” he said.

The injured officer was immediately evacuated to a nearby medical facility where he received urgent medical attention and is currently responding positively to treatment.

The matter was promptly reported at the Abattoir Police Division, while the suspect was apprehended and taken into police custody for further investigation and possible prosecution.

This LASTMA stabbing has heightened concerns over hostility directed at traffic management personnel while discharging their lawful duties.

Bakare-Oki expressed concern over such incidents and said that Lagos State Government would not tolerate any form of assault, intimidation, harassment or attack on officers entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining sanity and order on public roads.

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He urged motorists, commercial transport operators and other road users to comply with all traffic regulations as stipulated in the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law, 2018.