A paramilitary officer attached to the Lagos State Environmental
and Special Offences (Task Force) MR. Uzan Rildwan was stabbed on his
head and had 2 of his fingers cut off by commercial drivers and market
touts under Oshodi bridge this morning.
The
fracas was as a result of men of the Task Force arresting commercial
buses obstructing traffic and causing traffic gridlocks at Oshodi under
bridge this morning.
Commercial bus drivers and
market touts under the Oshodi bridge came out and attacked both Police
and Paramilitary officers with broken bottles, cutlasses, wood and other
dangerous weapons in order to secure the release of the arrested 6
commercial buses.
Mr. Uzan Rildwan who was
injured during the fracas was immediately rushed to nearby hospital for
treatment before he was transferred to General Hospital Ikeja for
further diagnoses on his head.
Meanwhile, with
the introduction of Mobile Court , it is expected that motorists would
comport themselves and complied with the Lagos State Traffic Laws of
2012.
The mobile court which will be moving
from different locations across the state with Magistrates, Lawyers,
Black Maria, Cashier, Police and Towing vehicles is set to deal with
growing cases of traffic and environmental abuses in the state.
Offences
by commercial motorcycles riding against traffic, refusal to obey
traffic signs, commercial bus drivers (Danfo) who operate on motion
with their doors open among others will be tried by the mobile court.
It
is expected that bus conductors should always make sure that doors of
their commercial bus is closed whenever their vehicle is on motion and
most only stopped at designated bus-stop during when dropping and
picking passengers, motorcycle riders should not ride against traffic or
ride their motorcycles on restricted routes across the state.
The
step taken by the government would bring sanity to the system and does
not exclude private vehicle owners who constantly disobeyed traffic
Laws.
However, during a week operation by the
Lagos State Task Force across the state , 24 commercial and private
vehicles who contravened traffic laws were arrested and made to pay
fines, 43 were screened out of the 390 miscreants arrested while
remaining 347 were charged to courts and 297 motorcycles were impounded
by Task Force.
Adebayo Taofiq
Public Affairs Officer
Lagos State Task Force.
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