Governor Ayodele Fayose on Friday arrested an officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps at Ikere Ekiti, for flouting traffic rules.
The arrest occurred minutes after Fayose completed the flag off of the Ado-Ikere-Iju dualisation and the commissioning of the downtown market stall in the town.
The road safety official was sighted by Fayose driving against traffic at Oke –Ikere area of the town.
The governor immediately stopped his convoy and ordered that the man be arrested, and his car seized.
The road safety operative, identified as a Alabi, was traveling in a Peugeot 505 car to Ikere Ekiti, but took the wrong lane while trying to avoid the failed part of the road.
The fact that the road safety official was driving in the wrong lane to avoid the bad road on which Fayose’s convoy travelled angered the governor, according to one of the governor’s aides.
The governor immediately ordered that the seized vehicle be taken to the office of the Ekiti State Traffic Management Agency in Ado Ekiti, with a directive that the driver be booked for all applicable fines.
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