Yinka Johnson while she was driving against traffic in the Ajah
axis of Lagos. The incident happened just a week after Governor
Fashola signed the new traffic law.Click on read more below to
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The General Manager,LASTMA, Mr Babatunde Edu in a statement said''Balogun was this morning (yesterday) killed by a female
banker on the Lekki-Ajah Expressway while carrying out his
official assignment at Mega City,Ajah.The driver whose identity
was revealed by the Auto Inspector device as Yinka Johnson,an
employee of Stanbic IBTC drove in a green Land Rover jeep with
registration number CY 276 LSD against traffic from Mega
Chicken inward toll plaza two.
She was intercepted by three officials of LASTMA led by the Head
of Operations,Mr Quanyum Asafa for traffic violation.Johnson
started driving recklessly in order to escape and in the process
ran over the officer. The deceased was rushed to Germaine
Hospital where he later died as a result of injury sustained from
the accident.The corpse was deposited at the Lagos State
Teaching Hospital,Ikeja for autopsy.Realising what she had
done she ran and escaped from the scene of the accident into
Ikota Estate,Ajah with the security men shutting the gate.
The situation became riotous as the security attached to the gate
refused all entries to open the gate until the intervention of the
Area Commander in charge of Area J,Mr Felix Uwanuli called
for back-up before access could be gained into the estate.
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