A video of an unidentified driver knocking off a police officer over a bridge in Lagos has surfaced online and gone viral.
The driver was seen trying to evade arrest for allegedly driving against traffic. In the process of trying to evade arrest, the driver while reversing knocked one of the police officers standing at the back of his vehicle off the bridge into a nearby canal.
Following the incident, the policemen have forcefully dragged the driver out of his vehicle and whisked him inside a van stationed at the scene.
Giving an update on the incident, the media aide to Babjaide Sanwo-Olu, Jubril Gawat said though the police officer broke his arm and but still alive.
“UPDATE: For people that asked or people that “forgot to ask” or people that don’t care …. The Police officer is in the hospital and in critical condition .. broke an arm too,” he wrote on Twitter.