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Lagos Driver Forgets Where He Parked Vehicle After Getting Drunk

Lagos Driver Forgets Where He Parked Vehicle After Getting Drunk.

Since late Saturday night, members of the Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have found a 2014 Nissan Altima that a drunk driver had left at Allen Avenue in Ikeja, Lagos.
After getting wasted at Fela’s Shrine on Saturday, July 30, the driver, 43-year-old Samuel Lawal of Magodo Estate, left his employer’s car at Allen Avenue.

According to preliminary investigations, Lawal used the car to party around Fela Shrine in Ikeja after dropping off his boss (name withheld) at his home in Magodo Phase 1.a.

It was also gathered that the suspect woke up on Sunday morning with the car key in his pocket and not knowing where he had parked the vehicle.

According to his statement to the police:-
“I tried looking for the car. I re-traced my steps back to African Shrine trying to ascertain if I had forgot the car there. All means to recover the vehicle proved futile. I had no alternative than to lie to my boss that I was robbed and that the vehicle had been driven away,”

The owner of the vehicle (names withheld) revealed that though he recruited Lawal about four months ago, he had never been untruthful or shady, adding that he had been a hard-working driver.

The puzzled boss decided to inform RRS after the driver became unreachable on Sunday.

The driver was picked up for questioning and the vehicle traced to Allen Avenue where it was recovered with all the side glasses wound down with a bottle of dry gin beside the driver’s seat.

The driver and vehicle have been released

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