The Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and other special offences Enforcement Unit on Tuesday arrested a driver and seized a bullion van for violating the state’s traffic law.
Chairman of the task force, Bayo Sulaiman, said the driver was nabbed while driving against traffic around 12noon on ACME Road in the Ikeja area of the state.
He added that a policeman escorting the van was also apprehended, while the cash-laden vehicle, with registration number PF 4582 SPY, was impounded.
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He said, “The task force was on routine patrol of Agidingbi and other areas in Ikeja. While coming through ACME at about 12pm, we saw the vehicle being driven against the traffic.
“He had no reason to have done that because the road was relatively free. We flagged him to stop him, but he sped away. We chased him for several minutes and later apprehended him.
“He attempted to hit me and some of my men, but we managed to overpower him and arrest him and the police escort. The bullion van is filled with cash and has been moved to our premises in Alausa.”
Sulaiman, a Chief Superintendent of Police, said the driver, who was moving cash from an undisclosed bank at the time of his arrest, had been charged to court, while the policeman had been handed over to Lagos State Police Command for disciplinary actions.
The task force boss said violations of the state’s traffic law by bullion vans were becoming rampant, adding that the government would no longer condone the act.
He insisted that the fact that they were moving cash did not exempt them from the law. Sulaiman warned security personnel, especially those escorting bullion vans, against disregarding the traffic law, saying, “the law is no respecter of anybody.”
He said, “Police officers are not above the law. Remember the case of a policeman who drove against the traffic and injured a mother and her child. The law is taking its course.”
“Of course, police officers can escort bullion vans, but it does not mean the driver has the licence to break the law. We will not condone any act of lawlessness from anybody.”
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