See What a Female Lastma Officer Caught on Camera, Doing to a Male Passenger

Officer of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority popularly known as LASTMA, has been caught on camera, doing what is totally wrong to a passenger in a vehicle.

In the viral video posted on social media, the female LASTMA officer can be seeing trying to force a male passenger out of a car while her male colleague, was trying to persuade her to leave the man. The onlookers who were close to her were equally trying to drag her away from her "prey" but it seems she was determined to achieve an aim only known to her.

Although we don't know the genesis of the issue but by all indications, the LASTMA officer was wrong in her action and approach to whatever might have been the issue. As a trained officer in uniform, there are things she shouldn't be caught doing. The onlookers conversation and the reaction of her colleague while she carried on with the show of shame, is an indication that the woman was wrong.

We still have a long way to go in this country as majority of people we expect to see some high level of maturity in their dealings with masses are always found wanting. Just imagine what would have happened to that man should this officer have a gun with her?

She looks frustrated and lacks the ability to control her emotion as her job demands. This is a shame on the entire LASTMA and the authority must as a matter of urgency, do something to address this.

This woman must be punished for this public display of shame.

What is your takes on this?

LASTMA officials caught on camera fighting passengers over N100, destroy a lady's phone

Two officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) were caught on camera fighting passengers in a vehicle going from Ikeja to Obalende. 

The LASTMA officials with badge name E. A. Fagbuyi and N. Oladega accosted the bus driver at Toll Gate (7up) bus-stop, along Berger road in the Lagos metropolis. They accused him of boycotting them since last week and demanded money for the supposed ‘offence’. 

The bus conductor told a Premium Times correspondent in the vehicle that they were seeking N100 bribe, and things took a different turn after Fagbuyi took charge of the vehicle and began heading to an unknown location. 

It was gathered that after the passengers protested, the heated argument which ensued degenerated into physical combat. During the fight, Mr Oladega assaulted one of the passengers identified as Sandra and also broke her phone screen. 

The officials allegedly threatened to harm the lady for demanding that her phone be repaired. Sandra told the Premium Times reporter at the scene; 

“I have been molested and I can’t take it. I was receiving when one of the officials came to drag my phone and threw it on the floor. He broke the screen already. These guys are thugs and should not be accommodated in Lagos.”

Source: Premium time

Lagos State bans motorist from Illegal Parking, introduced penalty of #200,000 For One-Way Offence.

Lagos State Govt bans motorist from parking illegally on major roads, the governor demanded an improvement in the free-flow of traffic statewide, with full enforcement of the Lagos State Traffic Laws and arrest of all traffic offenders without preference for civil servants, party members, security agencies, friends and family and so on.

The Lagos State Traffic Laws, passed by the State House of Assembly, was designed to protect law-abiding road users, while violators face the consequences of their actions. The sanctions range from N5,000 fine to N50,000, jail terms and forfeiture of vehicles.

But the new regime has introduced a severe penalty of N200,000 for one-way offence, such as is not known to the subsisting traffic laws. Also, all the violations that erstwhile had no monetary penalties now attract fines of between N20,000 to N90,000.

For instance, offences like failure to use seat belt, unclosed doors or standing on the doorway while in motion, all attract N20,000 each. Parking on the highway, obstruction of traffic, picking or dropping passengers on illegal bus-stop attract N50,000 fine.

Also, making a reverse on the highway, driving on kerbs and parking on walkways now attract N50,000 penalty. Driving on BRT designated lanes is N70,000 while dropping passengers on laybys is slammed at N90,000 fine. And for every night a seized vehicle spends in the custody of LASTMA, an N1,000 fine is paid.

The Guardian learnt that the severe penalty regime was the initiative of the LASTMA hierarchy, “to ensure that apprehended violators do not easily get out of the offence, unlike before. The law says we should impound a vehicle that drives against traffic, which is the most common traffic offence these days.

“But giving them a fine of N50,000 is like a slap on the wrist. But with N200,000 fine or risk of impounding and being shown on camera during the mobile court trial, they will think twice. The essence is deterrence,” a top official said yesterday.

The Guardian observed that the option before a one-way offender, among others, is to appear in court or appeal for out-of-court settlement and submission to fine.

The “lesser evil” of fine requires the one-way violator to sign an undertaken, pleading guilty to other lesser traffic offences, but not one-way. The violator would later realise that the penalty for the lesser offences all summed to about N200,000.

The mobile court option is not any better. It goes with a court bond of between N100,000 to N150,000 initial fine payable by a violator who is still on trial. With the bond paid, the offender’s vehicle is released but must keep appearing in court until the case is closed.

LASTMA official allegedly beaten to coma by police officer while on duty in Apapa

According to Linda Ikeji blog

A LASTMA official was allegedly beaten to a coma by a police officer while he was on duty in Apapa, Lagos.

According to the daughter of the LASTMA official, her father, Roland Fuludu, was beaten by SP Femi, a police officer attached to the Apapa Zone 13 of Lagos State.

She said her father objected to the police officers breaking traffic rules and collecting bribes while at it, hence the beating he received.

She claimed that SP Femi hit her father on the head several times with a baton and he lost consciousness. He was rushed to the Apapa General Hospital where he eventually regained consciousness and narrated what happened to him from his hospital bed.

Narrating the incident, the daughter wrote:

Hello everyone , I write with a broken heart as my dad who was on duty yesterday at Apapa was beaten till he collapsed by a rogue intoxicated police officer by name SP. Femi, attached to the Apapa Zone 13 of Lagos State.

According to my dad , Roland Fuludu, SP. Femi had sent a team of armed mobile policemen to the scene and a particular section of the road cordoned off while on repairs was forcefully opened and these set of rogue policemen were collecting bribes from motorists and heavy duty trucks who wished to access that lane, while “still on repairs”

However, the number 3 man of the LASTMA SQUAD I.e my dad ,posted at the “Apapa Zone 13” ,vehemently refused and checkmated the police officers.

The police officers called their irate power-driven boss, SP. Femi and updated him of the situation, he insisted on speaking to my dad. They had a heated conversation on the phone and SP. Femi threatened to deal with him.

True to his words, he got there with a team of heavily armed mobile policemen and he used a baton to hit my dad on the head severally.

He slumped to the ground, other officers who tried to help him up was chased away as seen in the video before some ROAD SAFETY officials and his LASTMA squads carried him to the car and drove him off to Apapa General Hospital.

My dad is presently in a critical condition in the hospital .I call on the LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT, office of the LASTMA, the NIGERIAN POLICE FORCE, SEGALINK, ACP ISHAKU, and all well meaning Nigerians to look into this matter and not let SP. Femi escape.I got my dad to speak when he woke up hours later at the hospital.

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