The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said despite impounding and auctioning cars belonging to traffic offenders in the state, many drivers in the state still flagrantly flout traffic rules across the state.
It will be recalled that last month, the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences auctioned 44 vehicles forfeited to the Lagos State Government for traffic offences.
Speaking in a chat with newsmen, Gbenga Omotosho, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy who defended the action of the state government said Lagosians must cooperate with the government in order to ensure a saner society.
The Commissioner, who reiterated the government’s zero tolerance for the violation of traffic law in the state, noted that it would continue to prosecute traffic offenders until sanity was restored on the roads and law-abiding citizens were allowed to commute without being impeded by some lawless individuals.
According to Omotosho, who said he agreed with some Lagosians that there has not been total compliance with the state government’s directives on traffic routes by commercial motorcyclists (Okada) and tricycles (keke Marwa), the state government in line with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s T.H.E.M.E.S agenda will continue to ensure that its laws especially on traffic management in the state are fully complied with.
He said “First and foremost, let me tell you that the government is active and alive to its responsibilities.
Tricycles (keke Marwa) and commercial motorcycles (Okada) were not banned all over Lagos. They were only restricted in over 2,000 routes in the state.
If anybody says that there has been non-compliance with the directives, the person may not be totally wrong. But what I am sure about is that the problem is being effectively tackled by the Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration.
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