Angry tanker drivers block Lagos highway
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...