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Traffic violations: Lagos state government set to Auction 53 vehicles impounded 

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Traffic violations: Lagos state government set to Auction 53 vehicles impounded

The Lagos State task force on the Environmental and Special Offences Unit has made an arrangement to auction 53 vehicles of traffic offenders already convicted by the court for driving against traffic regulations.

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According to Agency, 31 Vehicles impounded for trafic offences while 22 aboundoned by their owners for over six months after theiur arrest wiull be auction

Chairman of the Agency, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi disclosed that owners of the impounded vehicles who abandoned their cars have contravened the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law 2018, stating that public notice has been issued for owners of both the court forfeited and abandoned cars to identify their vehicles 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 court for an order of ‘Public Auction’ where members of the public would have opportunity to buy any of these vehicles,”

Egbeyemi clarified that 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 arrest for driving against traffic.

He affirmed that in addition to forfeiture of the vehicles, each traffic offender was sentenced to 100 hours of ‘Community Service’ at any public institution.

Egbeyemi, 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 state roads and law abiding citizens were allowed to commute without being impeded by unlawful individuals.

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