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Lagos govt auctions 44 vehicles for driving against traffic [PHOTO: TW @channelstv]

Lagos govt auctions 44 vehicles for driving against traffic [PHOTO: TW @channelstv]

Lagos govt auctions 44 vehicles for driving against traffic

The auction was in accordance with the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform of 2018.

byAgency Report
November 23, 2020
2 min read

The Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences has auctioned 44 vehicles for driving against traffic (one-way) in various parts of the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the auction was in accordance with the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform of 2018.

The spokesman for the Task Force, Adebayo Taofiq, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) during the auction which held at Alausa, Ikeja, that the exercise was not punitive but corrective in nature.

Mr Taofiq said the traffic offenders had earlier been charged to the Lagos State Mobile Court and the court had forfeited those vehicles to the Lagos State Government.

“The vehicles being auctioned today were apprehended and forfeited to the Lagos State Government for driving against traffic at different locations across the state.

“After the forfeiture, the law says we embark on auction but before we can embark on auction, we have to get a court order which we applied for and we were given the court order.

“After which we made a publication informing interested members of the public, particularly owners of these vehicles to come today for the auction exercise,” he said.

Mr Taofiq said that it was necessary to sanitise the state of careless and ignorant drivers and motorcycle (Okada) riders who had started misbehaving with impunity as if there was no law in Lagos.

“For instance, take the menace of the okada riders who use their bikes to rob victims across the state.

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“Should the government fold its arms and watch as the standard of the state is being reduced to zero.

“Immediately after the EndSARS protest, Lagos was locked down by motorists driving against traffic, driving on BRT corridors and causing obstruction on highways, not minding security personnel on the road,” Taofiq said.

He applauded the efforts of the Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, Olayinka Egbeyemi, in sanitising the state against traffic offenders.

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“Egbeyemi created an anti-one-way team with the agency and divided them to different locations across the state.

“This includes those monitoring the BRT corridors and those enforcing restricted routes for okada riders which is not an easy task to carry out but we just have to do it.

“The auctioning exercise being carried out is to serve as deterrent to others to desist from going against traffic rules and be orderly when on the road,” the spokesman said.

Mr Taofiq also appreciated the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for the support he had been giving the agency and all the enforcement officers across the state.

“If these laws can be adhered to, then there will not be much causalities at various hospitals because of okada accidents or from collision as a result of vehicles plying one-way.

“Those who drive against traffic usually hit people because when people want to cross the road they will not be expecting a car coming from the opposite direction.

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“By the time we follow the law, there will be orderliness and sanity on our highways,” he said.

Mr Taofiq appealed to members of the public, particularly motorists and okada riders, to desist from contravening the Lagos State Transport Reform Sector of 2018.

“These include driving against traffic, driving on BRT corridors and causing obstruction on the highway as part of the law because once you are caught, you will be charged to court.

“There is no alternative way to that,” he added.

Mr Taofiq also advised people to stop inducing traffic officers with money whenever they were arrested, saying that “the same law that affects the bribe taker, also affects the giver.”

NAN reports that a lot of aggrieved owners of forfeited vehicles were present at the auction in an attempt to reclaim their once owned property that was about to be lost.

(NAN)

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