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  The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority on Thursday confirmed the arrest of a fake traffic officer, David Oluchukwu, in the Lekki area of the state. The agency’s Director, Public Affairs Department, Taofiq Adebayo, in a statement, said the General Manager, LASTMA, Bolaji Oreagba, confirmed that the suspect was nabbed by a patrol team monitoring and controlling traffic around the Lekki axis. Adebayo said, “Preliminary investigations conducted by the agency revealed that the arrested suspect belonged to a criminal gang and they have been extorting huge sums of money from innocent motorists apprehended for various traffic offences ranging from seat-belt, obstructions, illegal over-taking and one-way in different locations across the state. “The suspect was apprehended after our patrol team sighted him fully kitted in a LASTMA uniform on a black jean collecting money from different commercial bus drivers who were illegally dropping and picking passengers under the Lekki Bridge. ...