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Lagos Taskforce Impounds 344 Motorcycles
Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement unit, also known as Taskforce, on Monday, confiscated no fewer than 70 motorcycles violating the ban on commercial motorcycles in some parts of the state.
The Director of Public Affairs of the agency, Abdulraheem Gbadeyan, in a statement made available to PUNCH Metro on Monday, said the enforcement would continue until there is total compliance with the state environmental law.
According to Gbadeyan, the motorcycles were confiscated in multiple operations carried out in Okuta road junction in Bariga, Oba Akran road by Kodesoh under the bridge, Ikeja and Ladipo by Five Star, along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway areas of the state.
He said, “Today, the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (Taskforce) confiscated seventy vehicles for flagrant violation of the Lagos State traffic law as amended.
“The vehicles were impounded in coordinated operations at target locations where reckless traffic violations by commercial transporters caused avoidable traffic congestion and general public nuisance.
“The exercise and enforcement were carried out at Okuta road junction in Bariga, Oba Akran road by Kodesoh under the bridge, Ikeja and Ladipo by Five Star, along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.”
Also speaking, the agency’s chairman, Adetayo Akerele, stressed that the recklessness of motorists contributed to worsening traffic situations in some parts of the state which he said the agency would not tolerate.
Gbadeyan quoted Akerele as saying “Only when citizens cooperate and obey relevant laws can the environmental sanity, safety, and security of the citizenry be improved and preserved generally.
“CSP Akerele further said that the Agency will not tolerate or surrender to any indiscipline perpetuated by any lawless motorist as traffic logjam is not natural, not created by God, but a product of recklessness on the road.”
PUNCH Metro reported on October 24, that the taskforce impounded 115 motorcycles in its continued efforts to enforce the ban on commercial motorcycles in some parts of the state.
According to Gbadeyan, the motorcycles were seized during a raid on LASU First Gate, Ipaja Gate, Governor’s Road, Igando and Dopemu areas of the state.
