Mobile Policeman kills Tanker Driver over Toll Fee in Lagos

There was a pandemonium at Mile Two area of Lagos today after a Mobile policeman attached to the Task Force put in place by the Federal Government to manage the traffic situation in that axis allegedly shot dead one of the tanker drivers over an argument on toll fee.

However, there were different accounts of how the tanker driver was killed by the mobile policeman.

An eyewitness who simply gave his name as Babajide ode said one of the two drivers is an Hausa man and the other Yoruba.

Babajide Ode said, two truck drivers head a disagreement at Alaba bus-stop along the expressway fighting over parking space. Before you knew it, the disagreement turned into an ethnic argument as their colleagues took sides depending on their ethnicity.

Ode added that,”A mobile policeman who got there tried to separate them. In the process, his rifle fell down and bullets were released. One of the bullets hit one of the drivers. At that point, we all took to our heels and abandoned the driver to his fate.”

According to another eyewitness who pleaded anonymity, said the deceased was a motor park tout working for the Task Force team in the area and his mission was to collect money from truck drivers who preferred to shunt the queue in order to get their trucks loaded on time.

He said, the Mobile policeman demanded money for toll fee from the deceased before the incident. In the ensuing argument, the cop fired a gunshot at the motor park tout and he died on the spot.