There was anarchy in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Monday when a man distinguished as Fatai Salami drank a bug spray and passed on at the premises of Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) accumulated that Salami was purportedly solicited to pay a fine from N215,000 for abusing the COVID-19 convention in the state. Salami's truck was seized by authorities of TRACE and in the care of the traffic the executives organization in Abeokuta for five days over a claimed N215,000 fine.
Sources revealed to NAN that TRACE authorities held onto the expired's truck from his driver in Abeokuta on Thursday for mocking the social separating request and inability to utilize face covers. He was said to have followed his driver to the premises of TRACE to argue for the arrival of the truck.
Disappointed by the non-arrival of the vehicle, it was assembled, the man picked to drink the harmful substance.
Advertising Officer of TRACE, Babatunde Akinbiyi, affirmed the passing in the premises of TRACE in Abeokuta. Akinbiyi, in any case, demanded that the perished was neither a truck proprietor nor a driver.
"One of our officers and individuals around observed him sitting on the floor and they requested that he hold up. As he stood up, he brought out something from his pocket and drank it. He was raced to the General Hospital, Ijaiye, and at the emergency clinic, he surrendered," he said.
He denied the claim that TRACE fined the expired N215,000 for mocking the COVID-19 law. "It isn't accurate. It was later we discovered that he was a supervisor of an armada of trucks claimed by another person and one of the trucks was punished for disregarding traffic rules. We assembled that the proprietor of the truck had cautioned him to guarantee he comes back with the truck or hazard sack.
"Who knows, perhaps that was the reason he executed himself. It is so miserable and terrible. He was neither a driver nor a truck proprietor. What he came here to do, we don't have the foggiest idea. In the event that you submit a traffic infraction, you must be fined and on the off chance that you believe that the charge is on the high side or you are being charged wrongly, you reserve the privilege to look for review, which we likewise engage," he said.
