Fake LASTMA officers were caught
and arrested by the Lagos State Task-force on Environmental and Special Offences
(Enforcement) Unit.
Six fake LASTMA officer were
caught while allegedly extorting money from motorists in Lagos Mainland, Lagos,
southwest Nigeria.
Also arrested in Oshodi are 13 under-aged
hoodlums. They were all brought to the task-force office at Alausa in a Black
Maria.
Task-force Chairman, Bayo
Sulaiman, a Chief Superintendent of Police, said the fake LASTMA and task-force
officials issued forged receipts to motorists after threatening them with
prosecution.
According to Sulaiman, the
suspects were arrested after they had extorted huge sums of money from
motorists and residents, saying that local governments could not establish a
parallel task-force with the existing one.
He alleged that the parallel
task-force was formed by the Mainland Local Government to generate illegal
income for the council, declaring the act as purely illegal and criminal.