6 Fake LASTMA caught by the Officials in Lagos

Fake LASTMA officers were caught and arrested by the Lagos State Taskforce 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 taskforce office at Alausa in a Black Maria.
Taskforce Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman, a Chief Superintendent of Police, said the fake LASTMA and taskforce 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 taskforce with the existing one.
He alleged that the parallel taskforce was formed by the Mainland Local Government to generate illegal income for the council, declaring the act as purely illegal and criminal.
“We got the information about the people who have been parading themselves as the taskforce of the Lagos Mainland Local Government. They have even gone as far as printing fake stickers and copy of the traffic law which they use to threaten the unsuspecting motorists.