Angry tanker drivers block Lagos highway

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A tanker driver, by name Salisu Sani, was yesterday crushed to death at Oshodi. This happened when he noticed that law enforcement agents were about to impound and drive away his truck, and so he broke up his prayer and accosted them to inquire what was amiss.

Demand by the driver from one of the officers behind the wheels to come down led to an altercation and a struggle in which he reportedly fell, while being beaten and crushed to death by their patrol vehicle. The LASTMA officials reportedly left the scene immediately.

According to Mr. Sodiq Seriki, a welder, who claimed to have watched the incident when he arrived his workshop early yesterday morning: “I saw one of the LASTMA officers in mufti trying to drive the trailer forward, and the driver who came back from where he went to pray told the LASTMA to come down from the trailer but, he refused and as he went through the other door, one of the task force officers who came with the LASTMA pulled the driver from behind and the driver fell and was crushed by their patrol car.

As soon as they saw what happened, they called themselves one after the other and took to their heels with their car. We rushed the driver to one hospital in Amuwo Odofin, where he was rejected, because of internal bleeding, but when we got to the second hospital, he was confirmed dead.”

Also, the driver’s assistant, Nurudeen Abdullahi, who said they were from Kaduna State, disclosed that the LASTMA officials came knocking on the door of the trailer and asking for his boss. “My oga came out to meet them and they said their boss wanted to see him. As he was going with them, he noticed that one LASTMA officer was already inside the trailer and started the ignition, my oga came back to stop him from moving the trailer and in the process, one of the officers drew him from behind and as he fell, their moving car crushed him. Before we knew it, they all ran away with their official car.”

This caused angry colleagues of the deceased tanker driver to block the highway in protest. Hoodlums cashed in and made bonfires on the road, hauling stones and sticks at policemen that arrived to quell the crisis.

However, police said the tanker driver named Salisu Sani (aka “Dangwari”), was intercepted by a LASTMA team, at Oshodi – Apapa Expressway, by Ijesha, enroute Mile2. “In the process, the tanker driver, was allegedly knocked down by the LASTMA vehicle. Victim was rushed to AMC Hospital Amuwo Odofin where he died.

Policemen have been deployed to the vicinity to restore normalcy, while all stakeholders are being pacified to prevent further breakdown of law and order. Meanwhile efforts are ongoing to clear obstructions and restore normal flow of traffic,” a police statement said, adding that investigation “has commenced to unravel what actually transpired.”

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