The Lagos State Government Friday inaugurated the Special Offences (Mobile) Court to summarily try traffic offenders with immediacy, another attempt to deal with the traffic menace that has hobbled the state in recent years.
The Mobile Court, which will be manned by highly-qualified Magistrates of the State Judiciary, will summarily try cases involving traffic and environmental offenders, the state government said.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony held at the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem said the launch of the Mobile Court, was one of the ways through which the administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode aims to broaden the pathway that guaranties citizens’ access to justice and at the same time ensure the preservation of civility in the society.
He said the development was an institutional reaction to identified societal challenges, and that henceforth traffic offenders such as motorcyclists who drive against traffic and refused to obey traffic signs like zebra crossing and traffic light indication, would be made to face the law.
Commercial bus (Danfo) drivers who fling their doors open while in motion thereby endangering lives of those of their passengers and other road users including anyone crossing the highway where pedestrian bridges are provided would also be prosecuted before the Mobile Court.
Governor Ambode has been trying to create a new Lagos where normalcy prevails; this is one of the many efforts of his administration to restore sanity to the Lagos environment.
