Five traffic officers with the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) have been arrested for extorting motorists.
Three of the arrested traffic officials are Bamidele Sheu, a Level Seven traffic officer, aged 48; Ope Adisa, aged 32 and 37-year-old Babatunde Aluko.
The officers were arrested last week following a complaint to the agency by one Akinmolayan Babatunde, a clearing agent, for illegal apprehension of his container truck with registration number AA 553 NGW at Marina area of the Lagos Island and subsequent, demand for N80,000 bribe by the traffic officers before the vehicle could be released.
According to Akinmolayan, he was accompanying the container truck on Monday to deliver goods at Walter Carrington Street on Victoria Island, when the truck was forced to stop at Marina, close to the State House, by the three LASTMA officials in uniform working with some other men in mufti for driving the vehicle at unauthorised hours.
Five LASTMA officers arrested for alleged extortion
