Operatives of LASTMA have nabbed a fake traffic officer who makes a minimum of N40k daily in Lekki.
In the press statement released, the arrested suspect, David Oluchukwu, 27, who hails from Anambra state, confessed to having been impersonating as a LASTMA official and extorting money from different motorists particularly commercial bus drivers for violating traffic laws around the Lekki area of the state.
“Preliminary investigations conducted by the Agency revealed that the arrested suspect belonged to a criminal gang and they have been extorting huge sums of money from innocent motorists apprehended for various traffic offences ranging from seat-belt, obstructions, illegal over-taking and One-way at different locations across the State.”
The LASTMA General Manager, Mr Bolaji Oreagba says that the suspect was apprehended after their patrol team on duty monitoring & controlling traffic around the Lekki axis sighted him fully kitted with a LASTMA uniform on black jeans.
