An unidentified commercial driver, has set a traffic personnel of Edo State in Benin City.
The offence was said to have occured Friday when the driver was stopped by the traffic officer, who worked with the Edo State Traffic Management Agency (EDSTMA) for driving against traffic
was directed to be taken to the office.
It was gathered that the driver in the bus marked Osun FFE145XA beat the traffic light at Adesuwa Junction along Sapele Road and when he was stopped by traffic personnel, he resisted arrest and in the process,he stripped himself naked, took a keg of petrol from his vehicle, poured it on the traffic officer and set him ablaze.
Efforts to reach the spokesperson of the EDSTMA, Roland Owolabi were not successful but a video on social with the pictures of the vehicle and a personnel speaking on what looked like a phone camera said, “The driver committed a traffic offence, and officers of the Zone 2 Enforcement Team apprehended him and asked him to gently take the bus to the base but he refused.
“He resisted arrest and started fighting everyone, at the end of the day one of the officers was asked to take the bus to the base, the driver brought out petrol, got himself naked, poured the petrol on the office in the bus and set him ablaze as we speak the officer is receiving treatment in a hospital here in Benin City. The bus driver is on the run.”
Members of the public have been called to release any information about the driver of the bus or the owner of the bus to the EDSTMA office or report to the nearest police station.