The relationship between the officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) and bus drivers in Lagos State has not been good right from the beginning. And on Tuesday, March 16, the sour relationship was made to manifest, as there was an attack on LASTMA officials (who had closed for the day) by bus drivers.
This attack led to the death of one LASTMA official and another one brutally injured. The two, according to LASTMA, were in mufti and on their way home when the angry motorists attacked them.
A spokesman for the agency said the motorists went berserk following the seizure of the bus. The deceased identified as Godwin Obasu was said to have been hit multiple times with machetes by rampaging commercial drivers protesting the seizure of a bus popularly known as Korogbe. The other LASTMA official, Adeniyi Hakeem, who was with him, was in a coma.
