The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit, commonly referred to as the Lagos State Taskforce, confiscated no fewer than 70 vehicles on Monday.
In a statement provided to our correspondent, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, the Director of Public Affairs for the Lagos State Taskforce, stated that the vehicles were impounded for “flagrant violation of the Lagos State traffic law as amended.”
“The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (Taskforce), today confiscated seventy 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 cause avoidable traffic congestions and general public nuisance,” the statement said.
Warning motorists in the habit of traffic recklessness, the statement quoted the Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, CSP Adetayo Akerele, to have maintained that the agency under his stewardship will not spare violators of environmental and traffic laws of the state any breathing space.
He added 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 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.
“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,” the statement mentioned.