An official of the dreaded Lagos State Traffic Management Agency was forced to act in a tragic drama on Thursday. The
setting of the drama is the Third Mainland Bridge while the playwright
is an expatriate whose appearance suggested he was an Asian. Photo:Recent Unfortunate lastma official battered by Navy .
At the Obalende end of the bridge, some LASTMA officials were stopping and
passing some vehicles. That was how the one in question waved the Asian
– some people actually believed he was a Chinese – to stop. But as soon
as the chap stopped, he produced a long knife from his car and
challenged the traffic officer to move closer to him.
Perhaps because the traffic guy did not wear a knife-proof - or the kind of charm that Yorubas call okigbe – he decided to, borrowing a statement from Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman, hold a rapid dialogue with his legs. But as if it was a scene from a Chinese or an Indian film, the knife-wielding expatriate began to chase him, while he continued to run for dear life. What happened after? Honestly, one can’t say yet.
