Quote:A suspected officer of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has allegedly shot official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) dead.
The incident occurred on Wednesday at Iyana-Ipaja round about around 6pm.

The LASTMA official was said to have flagged him down for traffic issue.

The officer, it was learnt, got down and warned the traffic official never to stop him again, adding that he didn’t have right to do so.
In the course of exchanging hot words, the angry officer returned to his car, brought out a gun and shot the traffic official.

Many ran for safety after hearing the sound of the gun.
The officer, who’s identity is yet to be ascertained, was said to have been arrested.
Eyewitnesses said the officer drove a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV).

The alleged killer was first taken Moshalashi Police Station along Ipaja Road before being transfered to State Command in Ikeja GRA.

The traffic official was rushed to Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital, where he was confirm dead.
His remains have been deposited in a mortuary in Yaba, Lagos Mainland.

LASTMA Public Relations Officer Mahmud Hassan confirmed the incident.

Hassan said investigation is ongoing and will get on the identity of both the dead traffic official and the officer that shot him.

Quote:On 28/11/18, at about 1800hrs, the driver of a Toyota Highlander SUV, with registration number LSR 277 BJ, later identified as Police Inspector Olukunle Olonade attached to FSARS Ikeja while driving along Iyana-Ipaja road, was contravened for driving against traffic by a LASTMA official, one Rotimi Adeyemi, aged 46 years at Iyana-Ipaja roundabout.

The two men vehemently disagreed with each other. However, during the altercation, the said Inspector Olukunle Olonade allegedly shot the LASTMA officer to death.

Consequently, irate mob, who thought that the shooter was an armed hoodlum because he was in mufti, decended on him and beat him to stupor.

Although he was later rescued by teams of policemen drafted to the scene, he later gave up the ghost while being rushed to hospital for treatment.

The serial number of the pistol recovered at the scene was checked in the system and it revealed the bearer as Inspector Olukunle Olonade attached to FSARS Ikeja.

Corpses of the deceased have been evacuated to the morgue for autopsy.

The CP Lagos has directed that the late Inspector Olakunle Olonade be tried posthumously in Orderly room and be recommended for dismissal from the Force.