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.
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“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.