Over-speeding kills 2 Lagos taskforce officers

Yinka Egbeyemi, Taskforce Chairman

Kazeem Ugbodaga

Tragedy struck on Wednesday night as two officers of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit died in a ghastly motor accident in Alausa in abnormal over-speeding.

Taskforce source said officers over-sped in a short distance of about 500 metres between their office in Alausa and the State House of Assembly.

One of the officers was said to have died immediately while the second died in hospital on Thursday as the incident has thrown the taskforce headquarters in a mourning mood.

PM News gathered that the officers might have gotten drunk as the distance between the taskforce office and the State House of Assembly were the accident occurred was just about 500 metres.

The police officer who drove the vehicle was said to be on top speed when the accident occurred.

A taskforce source who craved anonymity wondered how such an accident could have occurred at such a short distance, meaning that the police officer who drove the vehicle was driving in abnormal speed.

Our source stated that the driver of the vehicle was a police officer who was not supposed to drive as there were drivers designated to drive the taskforce officers whenever they were going on operation.

Taskforce Chairman, Yinka Egbeyemi, when contacted refused to comment on the matter, saying that he was not permitted to talk on the matter, asking our reporter to talk to the Police Public Relations Officers, PPRO, Dolapo Badmos on the matter.

When contacted, Badmos said he was not aware of the matter.

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