A female banker, Yinka Johnson, yesterday
crushed an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Mr.
Hameed Balogun, while driving against the traffic in the Ajah area of
the state. This is happening three weeks after another official of the agency, Mustapher Adeleke, was crushed by a bus driver,
who was driving against traffic. The incident was recorded a week after
the Governor Babatunde Fashola signed the new traffic law.
According to LASTMA authorities, Johnson, who is an employee of Stanbic
IBTC, ran over the traffic official when he accosted her for
contravening the law...Ghen ghen, this woman will definately be going in
for 6 years.3 years for driving against traffic and the rest for
murder...Meanwhile my friends in VGC told me it was a DANFO driver that
crushed the man and not the lady...Continue to read the full story.
The General Manager, LASTMA, Mr. Babatunde Edu, said after hitting the
33-year-old LASTMA official, Johnson ran into Ikota Estate, Ajah, where
security guards prevented LASTMA officials from arresting her.
He said, “Balogun was this morning (yesterday) killed by a banker on the
Lekki-Ajah Expressway while carrying out his official assignment at his
duty post at Mega City, Ajah.
“The driver, whose identity was revealed by the Auto Inspector device as
Yinka Johnson, an employee of IBTC, drove in a green LandRover Jeep
with registration number CY 276 LSD against traffic from Mega Chicken
inward toll plaza two. “She was intercepted by three officials of LASTMA led by the Head of
Operations, Mr. Quayum Asafa, for traffic violation. Johnson started
driving recklessly in order to escape and in the process ran over the
officer. “The deceased was rushed to Germaine Hospital where he later died as a
result of injury sustained from the accident. The corpse was deposited
at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, for autopsy.
“Realising what she had done, she ran and escaped from the scene of the
incident into Ikota Estate, Ajah with the security men shutting the
gate.
“The situation became riotous as the security attached to the gate
refused all entries to open the gate until the intervention of the Area
Commander in charge of Area J, Mr. Felix Uwamli, who called for backup
before access could be gained into the Estate.
