Chairman of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Chris Olakpe is dead.

The LATSMA office, Oshodi, and the Anti Bomb section of the Nigeria Police were thrown into mourning at the news of the demise of Olakpe.

The late Olakpe, died on Sunday at an undisclosed hospital.

It was gathered that Olakpe, who was Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO) during the reign of former Inspector- General of Police (IGP) Tafa Balogun, died after a brief illness.

Confirming the death, the LASTMA Director of Research and Statistics, Isaac Adetimiro, said late Olakpe, did not show any sign of sickness before his demise.

He said: “We heard about it this morning. He did not show any sign of any sickness. We are really in shock.”

Alakpe was a one-time Commissioner of Police in charge of Police Explosive Ordinance Department (EOD)

One-time Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Chris Olakpe is dead.

Olakpe was said to have been active and showed no signs of illness.

He was appointed by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in November 2015.

Ambode explained that the retired officer’s appointment was “in response to the consistent complaints by the public on the situation of traffic on the streets of Lagos”.

Olakpe studied sociology and anthropology at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and was a graduate of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos.

He served as Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa and Plateau States as well as Commissioner of Police of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit, Lagos.

The late Olakpe enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent on July 17, 1980.

He was an alumnus of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Plateau State and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in Enugu State where he bagged a BSc in Sociology and Anthropology.

He also attended the Lagos Baptist Academy, Obanikoro.

He had served as the Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police and the CP in charge of the Police Anti-Bomb Squad.

He was a member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians, USA, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police, USA.

In 2005, the nation mourned with Olakpe whose child was among the students of Ignatius Loyola Jesuit College who perished in the Sosoliso Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 carrying 110 passengers and crew from Abuja to Port Harcourt.