° Awaits directives on 7350 motorcycles
The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) has concluded arrangement to auction vehicles of 31 traffic offenders already convicted by the court for driving against traffic.
Also to be auctioned are impounded 22 automobiles that were abandoned by their owners for over six months.
Taskforce Chairman, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed that owners of the impounded vehicles who abandoned their cars contravened the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law 2018.
According to him, public notice has been issued for owners of both the court forfeited and abandoned vehicles to identify them at the agency’s car parks in Ikorodu and Bolade-Oshodi.
He said: “At the expiration of the one-month verification exercise the agency shall apply to the court for an order of ‘Public Auction’ where members of the public would have the opportunity to buy any of the vehicles”.
Egbeyemi said the owners of the vehicles forfeited to the government pleaded guilty before Magistrate Omobola Salawu of the Lagos State Mobile Court at Oshodi after their arrests for driving against traffic.
He affirmed that in addition to forfeiture of the vehicles, each traffic offender was sentenced to 100 days ‘Community Service’ at any public institution.
Egbeyemi, however, maintained that with the State government’s zero-tolerance for violation of the law, the agency would continue to prosecute traffic offenders until sanity was restored on our roads and law-abiding citizens were allowed to commute without being impeded by unlawful individuals.
He confirmed that over 7350 impounded motorcycles are presently in custody of the agency for plying restricted routes, including highways and bridges across the State.
He stated that the agency was awaiting further directives from the government in respect of the impounded motorcycles.
He said that the motorcyclists were apprehended around Agege, Pen-Cinema, Apapa, Ikorodu, Mile 2, Obalende, Oyingbo, 2nd Rainbow, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ojota, Maryland, Yaba, Oshodi, Ikorodu Road, Apongbon, Ikeja, and Iyana-Ipaja.
