Eye Witness Claims LASTMA Official Was Not Killed By Banker But By Danfo Driver

There are indications that the LASTMA
official, Hammed Balogun, who was
allegedly run over by a female banker,
Yinka Johnson, might actually have
been hit by a reckless Danfo bus and
not the banker as originally portrayed.
The banker, according to the traffic
authority, was said to have been
driving against traffic along Lekki-Ajah
expressway when she was accosted
by the now-deceased 33-year-old
LASTMA official.
According to the General Manager of
the traffic management authority, Mr.
Babatunde Edu, “The driver, whose
identity was revealed by the auto
inspector device as Yinka Johnson, an
employee of IBTC, drove in a green
LandRover Jeep with registration
number CY 276 LSD against traffic
from Mega Chicken inward toll plaza
two.
“She was intercepted by three officials
of LASTMA led by the head of
Operations, Mr. Quayum Asafa, for
traffic violation. Johnson started
driving recklessly in order to escape
and in the process ran over the
officer.
“The deceased was rushed to
Germaine Hospital where he later died
as a result of injury sustained from the
accident. The corpse was deposited at
the Lagos State Teaching Hospital,
Ikeja for autopsy.
“Realising what she had done, she
ran and escaped from the scene of
the incident into Ikota Estate, Ajah
with the security men shutting the
gate.
“The situation became riotous as the
security attached to the gate refused
all entreaties to open the gate until
the intervention of the area
commander in charge of Area J, Mr.
Felix Uwamli, who called for backup
before access could be gained into
the estate.”
Eye-witnesses at the scene of the
incident however say that the official
was hit by a Danfo driver and not the
banker whose car was stationary
when the incident happened.
Doyin Akinlade, a Lagos TV producer,
who claimed to be privy to the
circumstances leading to her arrest,
spoke to YNaija saying that “the
LASTMA authorities, for some
unexplained reasons are trying to pin
the alleged crime on Yinka Johnson
whose car was not even moving at the
time Hammed Balogun was hit. She
did not even see the man being hit.”
He agreed that the banker violated the
law by driving against traffic but he
insisted that it was not true that she
hit the official. He also noted that
there was no sign of impact on her
car but the said Danfo had its
windscreen broken.
Yinka Johnson is a of mother three,
including a two month old baby who
is reported to be held with her in
detention.