Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday prevented rampaging okada riders and other hoodlums from destroying 22 buses after a BRT bus crushed to death an okada rider operating on the dedicated bus lane around Cement Bus Stop on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.
The spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement on Thursday that it took the intervention of the Rapid Response Squad to stop the move to destroy the buses.
Adejobi said based on the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, the operatives of the RRS successfully prevented a reprisal on 22 BRT buses and robbing of passengers caught during the fracas that ensued after the accident.
Odumosu 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 those who ply BRT corridors with impunity.
He emphasised that such was unacceptable.
Odumosu directed that the hoodlums that orchestrated the attacks on BRT buses and brouhaha at cement area in Wednesday 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.
