November 5, 2024

The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (Taskforce), today confiscated 70 vehicles for flagrant violation of the Lagos State traffic law as amended.

The vehicles were impounded in coordinated operations carried out at target locations where reckless traffic violations by commercial transporters caused avoidable traffic congestion and general public nuisance.

Warning motorists in the habit of traffic recklessness, Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, CSP Adetayo Akerele, maintained that the agency under his stewardship will not spare violators of environmental and traffic laws of the state, adding that only when citizens cooperate and obey relevant laws, will environmental sanity, safety and security of the citizenry can be improved and preserved generally.

The exercise and enforcement operation was carried out at Okuta road junction in Bariga, Oba Akran road by Kodesoh under the bridge, Ikeja and Ladipo by five Stars, along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway respectively.

CSP Akerele further said that the Agency will not tolerate or surrender to any indiscipline perpetuated by any lawless motorist as traffic logjam is neither natural, nor created by God, but a product of recklessness on the road.