A commercial driver identified as Donatus from Enugu State on Tuesday stabbed officials Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) officers in Otukpo after being stopped for reckless driving.

Donatus was travelling from Okigwe, Enugu to Lafia the capital city of Nasarawa State with a blue Toyota Primera, when he was pulled over by the FRSC officials.

It was gathered that the officials seized his drivers’ license and vehicle particulars for reckless driving. But in an attempt to escape and also retrieve his papers from, he repeatedly stabbed the two officers that approached him and drove off.

The driver was traced and arrested by members of a local vigilante group alongside some officers of FRSC Otukpo branch.

Donatus was handed over to the police with two daggers found on him. Speaking, Donatus said he didn’t plan to kill the officers.

“I was only trying to catch up and return to Okigwe as soon as possible because I am supposed to pay up a loan I took sometimes ago in order to avoid my car from being impounded.
“It was what I used as collateral. I was only angry and trying to protect myself,” the driver claimed.
It was gathered that the two officers are receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in the area.