Breaking Traffic Rules

Earlier today, I was privileged to witness this scene in Surulere, Lagos. A commercial tricycle rider, otherwise known as ‘keke man’, was being pursued by a police woman and two other men in another tricycle. They overtook him and finally got hold of him. At first,
I thought it was a robbery case but later got to know the real gist.

The ‘keke man’ had violated the traffic rule and unfortunately for him, a police woman was quick to notice him and called out for him to stop and probably face the consequence of his offence but he turned deaf ears and sped off, hitting the police woman in the process and went further to hit another tricycle. This infuriated the police woman and another spectator who happened to be a Lawyer. They both then pursued him in the other tricycle until they caught up with him. When the police woman interrogated him on why he ran when he was asked to stop, hear him;

“Yes now, I had to run. Do I know you before (referring to the Lawyer guy)? These days, anything can happen. How can someone be telling me to stop. We don’t know who is who. It’s only she(the police woman) that I know is a police.”

He seemed so unrepentant about the whole thing. My heart actually went out for him knowing what he had gotten himself into. Committing more than one offence at a time. And having the Nigerian police to deal with for that reason. On a normal day, I would push for him to be given a second chance but then who knows how many chances he had been given already. That could be his fiftieth or hundredth chance for all I knew because the man I saw looked so ignorant. 

The police woman holding tight to the culprit

The police woman had to hold him tight while she called her superiors on the phone to come take care of the issue. In a while, they arrived on mufti in a tricycle and bundled the culprit out in his own tricycle.

My question: What do you think should be done to this guy and the likes of him that disobey traffic rules at will? Should he be given a second chance to change?