Over the weekend, an official of the Lagos State Traffic
Management Authority, slumped while controlling traffic on Ishaga Road in the
Idi-Araba, Mushin area.
gooo/news/lastma-official-who-slumped-on-traffic-duty-dies/”>Punch newspaper reports that the official, Kazeem Lawal, was brought in dead to
the Randle Hospital, Surulere, where his colleagues had rushed him.
The official, who was among LASTMA officials on duty for an event at the Chapel
of the Healing Cross, collapsed at about 1.30pm.
after he did not respond to preliminary treatment.
Until his death, Lawal was attached to LASTMA Zone 3, Iponri.
newspaper addressed the incident thus
taken to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, but he could not be attended
to because of the ongoing strike action. He was then rushed to the Randle
Hospital where he was confirmed dead.
“We do not have any insurance policy. We do not have any hazard allowance. It
is very painful.
“His family members are in disarray at present. We work round the clock, and we
are usually overwhelmed. He must have collapsed from accumulated stress.
“Since the government sacked some LASTMA workers last year, there has been a
burden on the workforce. Work posts, where seven personnel were handling, have
been reduced to one or two.”
Meanwhile, LASTMA officials, policemen and National Union of Transport Workers
besieged the hospital on Sunday.
“The whole thing happened so fast and so shocking. By the time they took him to
the Randle Hospital, he had died,” another LASTMA official said.
