In furtherance of the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, operatives of the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS), on Wednesday, 10th March, 2021, successfully prevented a reprisal attack on twenty two (22) BRT buses and robbery of passengers caught during the fracas that ensued after an accident involving a BRT Bus and one motorcyclist at Cement Bus-Stop along Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.
The Commissioner of Police had ordered the RRS Commander, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, to lead the enforcement team to the accident scene where he discovered that a commercial motorcyclist, who lost control while using the BRT corridor, was crushed to death by an oncoming BRT bus which resulted to attacks by some motorcyclists and miscreants on all BRT buses and passengers in the area.
The RRS enforcement team was able to restore order and escorted the 22 BRT buses safely back to Oshodi terminal. The Commissioner of Police decried the flagrant disobedience of traffic rules by Okada Riders and motorists in the state, especially plying the BRT corridors with impunity. He emphasised that such is unacceptable.
The police boss, however, directed that the hoodlums that orchestrated the attacks on BRT buses and brouhaha at cement area on Wednesday 10th March, 2021, be apprehended and made to face the wrath of the law as the command will not tolerate any act of lawlessness in any part of the state.
E-SIGNED
CSP OLUMUYIWA ADEJOBI(mnipr)
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
LAGOS STATE COMMAND
IKEJA-LAGOS
