An eyewitness, Authority Newspaper reports, said the tanker driver met his death when LASTMA officials blocked him and accused him of wrong parking on the highway.
“In the process of trying to draw him out of his truck to effect his arrest, he was drawn out on the expressway and was hit by an oncoming vehicle. Meanwhile, the LASTMA officials immediately fled the scene.
“This sparked up anger amongst his fellow drivers who gathered and blocked the expressway with their trucks and setting up fire with tyres thereby causing unprecedented traffic lockdown on the road,” an Okada rider told journalists.
The outcome of this incident, which happened at the Ijesha end of the expressway caused gridlock on both side of the expressway and also spilled over all the adjoining roads. Vehicles were making u-turn on the road and taking one-way to follow other roads and beat the traffic.
According to a mini-bus driver at the Lord’s Chosen bus stop, Ijesha, who simply gave his name as Udoka, people trekked as far as Cele bus stop to Ijesha to enter bus that passes through Amuwo-Odofin and get to Mile Two.
However, it took the intervention of security men, which comprised both the police and the military to disperse the protesters and restore order and sanity on the road.
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