Officials of the Lagos State
Taskforce on Environmental and
Special Offences (Enforcement)
Unit have impounded a police
bullion van, loaded with money,
for driving against the flow of traffic on Agidingbi Road, Ikeja in
Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. The bullion van with registration
number PF 4582 SPY was
impounded around 12.00 noon on
Tuesday, according to Taskforce
Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman, also a
Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP. The bullion van and the driver
were taken to the taskforce
office in Alausa, while the driver
would be arraigned in court for
violating the Lagos Road Traffic
Law 2012. Under the law, the bullion van
will be forfeited to the
government while the driver will
be made to pay N20,000 fine
being a first time offender. The bullion van driven by the errant driver Sulaiman said the the police
officer escorting the bullion van
was also arrested, adding that
the taskforce was on a routine
patrol of Agidingbi and other
areas in Ikeja. “While coming through ACME at
about 12noon, we saw the
driver, driving the bullion van
against the traffic. He had no
reason to have done that
because the road was free. So, we tried to stop him but he sped
away. We chased him for several
minutes, and succeeded in
blocking his course. “He attempted to hit me and
some of my men but we were at
last able to arrest him and the
police escort, while we seized the
bullion van with the cash and
moved it to our premises in Alausa,” he explained. According to him, the driver, who
was moving cash from an
undisclosed bank at the time of
his arrest had been charged to
court while the officer had been
handed over to police authorities for disciplinary actions. Sulaiman lamented that several
bullion vans had been violating
traffic laws with impunity, saying
that government would ensure
that they go after such and
punish them according to the law. “The fact that police are
involved in the movement of
cash did not exempt them from
the law. Erring drivers would be
made to face the wrath of the
law. Security personnel, especially those escorting bullion
vans must not disregard the
state`s Traffic. The law is no
respecter of anybody “Police officers are not above
the law. Remember what
happened recently, the case of a
police vehicle which drove
against the traffic to injure and
kill somebody; the law took its course,” he stated.
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