Yungwizzzy: since he can't obey simple traffic rules let him go to jail na

me_for_you: Yorubas that never see anything evil in st fashola.

For taking an unauthirised u-turn, my younger brother's friend was slammed 15k fine. I even helped out with 5k.

Simple offences that a trained traffic policeman can simply tell a driver "go and do it no more"

Sam xiu lee: Oh lord have Mercy,I read through 3 pages and no one can come up with a sensible comment,from okada to keke napep,to kabukabu and op end it all with LAWMA....Hmmmmm
@ OP pls let me help you,
1,am from badagry and am not aware, of any prison in that axis.
2,police talk less of Lastma has no right to detain talkless of sending someone to prison for traffic offence in Lagos and any where in Nigeria,the best they can do is to impound your vehicle.
3.the highest offence in the traffic law is one way drive,which I was guity of my self, I paid the fine 50k,they gave me a bill at the back of the bill/ticket,all the offence where listed with their various fines,I was lucky they didn't send me to psychiatric hospital for a check up,so I don't think they will charge him 100k for illegal parking.
4,Lawma can not seal your office without a court order.
So please my friend stop lying on a faceless forum,if you have a problem with Fashola just come out straight.
At least give us the name of the firm and let's help you guys out if you are sincere.

Sam xiu lee: Oh lord have Mercy,I read through 3 pages and no one can come up with a sensible comment,from okada to keke napep,to kabukabu and op end it all with LAWMA....Hmmmmm
@ OP pls let me help you,
1,am from badagry and am not aware, of any prison in that axis.
2,police talk less of Lastma has no right to detain talkless of sending someone to prison for traffic offence in Lagos and any where in Nigeria,the best they can do is to impound your vehicle.
3.the highest offence in the traffic law is one way drive,which I was guity of my self, I paid the fine 50k,they gave me a bill at the back of the bill/ticket,all the offence where listed with their various fines,I was lucky they didn't send me to psychiatric hospital for a check up,so I don't think they will charge him 100k for illegal parking.
4,Lawma can not seal your office without a court order.
So please my friend stop lying on a faceless forum,if you have a problem with Fashola just come out straight.
At least give us the name of the firm and let's help you guys out if you are sincere.

Gen. Orumov:
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This is why it is advisable for us to know our rights and as well Know what's in our constitution (you never know when the knowledge is going to be needed) and to be generally informed about all matters that directly and indirectly affects us.
I don't think any Task Force has the right to arrest traffic offenders other than The Nigerian Police and Lastma (though the latter isn't even empowered to arrest but to jot down the offenders particulars and pass it on to the Police). The fine for stopping at an unauthorised bus stop isn't even N 100,000 according to the state's new traffic law.
When you are arrested for a traffic offence and you officially want to pay your fine, you should only pay at the bank, and not over the counter anywhere elsethen take your teller to Lastma, Frsc etc
If your friend is still in the custody of this so called 'Task Force' hire a lawyer immediately. I repeat, it will benefit us if we know our rights. Government officials aren't going to be able to harass us unjustly.

pato station:


I have said it before and I will say it again. I have no problem with Governor Fashola. On LAWMA, I am surprised that just because you haven't experienced it, so it does not happen. Well here is the message sent by a lady from LAWMA at 4:41 PM on the day before they sealed the office the next morning by 7AM. "Ignore if u've paid. Kindly endeavor to pay ur wastebills to avoid embarrasment.... Call XYZ on 080XXXXXXXX for info. TREAT AS URGENT. From LAWMA"

We were not sued to any court. As a matter of fact, we expected the LAWMA officials to reconcile their account with Ecobank instead of operating like the old NITEL whereby you go back to reconcile after payment. Remember, they claimed that we never paid anything and they refused to wait till the office was open so that they can see the evidence of payment. In the end, they said pay task force fee. This is not Fashola's fault. But some officials are looking for extra money. You get my point.

You say police has no right to detain somebody, abi? Then you must have just returned from UK.

pato station:

So you think somebody can just come out to make up this kind of story? If you follow my post, all I needed is suggestions on how to follow up this case and how to free this guy. Apart from that, the story is meant to get Nairalanders in particular and Lagosians in general to be aware of happenings. If you wish to visit the driver's family, I will give you the address in Ikeja.

Only last week, members of "LAWMA Task Force" sealed my office for not paying their bills. Their claim was that we have never paid any bill since the inception of our company. Unfortunately, they came around 7 am when the Manager who kept the files was not yet in the office. All pleadings to let the person come and show evidence of payment fell on deaf ears. It was after we paid the only outstanding bill and went to their office at 9 Awolowo Way to get them to open the gate that we realized the reason for their hurry to lock it. They demanded N30,000 un-official amount "for Task Force" before they could open the gate. Tell me that I also made up this story. I can give you the names of the officials who demanded the money. This is Lagos!

naturalwaves:
I see you are a Pro at giving sketchy details of events. The above post is filled with some funny lies. Your office was wrongly locked for not paying "AN" outstanding bill as against the fact that they thought you had never paid any bill since your company was established and so it was locked on a wrong reason. Now, you went to their office, showed evidence of past payments, paid the only outstanding and then rather than demand for an apology from them for delaying your business schedule by wrongly closing your office, you paid 30,000 naira to re open the office when you are not an illiterate (no offence). How does that sound to you? If I may ask, how much was the outstanding you paid?

Moreover, what is the correlation between this your story and that of your friend JJ? Nothing similar at all except 'Lagos State'. Someone told you that you just want to discredit BRF and you denied it only for you to shoot yourself with this kangaroo story again. You need to try again and come up with a better story okay? I will be waiting!

pato station: This my guy, I will call JJ was an Okada Rider in Lagos until recently when the Fashola Administration banned (or should I say restricted) the Okada business in most parts of the state. Mr. JJ who has many mouths to feed made a smart move (at least so he thought) by obtaining a loan from a Micro Finance Bank to buy a brand new Keke Marwa. With that, he felt that his future and the future of his transport business is guaranteed. But he was mistaken. Weeks after purchasing the Keke, the government again wielded the big stick by once again "restricting" the Keke use in the state. JJ was confused and did not know what to do.

Before long, he got a helping hand from well-wishers in his church to buy a Tokumbo Toyota Camry car for use as "kabu-kabu" He registered the car and got a new plate number and started business. Within one week, members of the Lagos state "Task Force" got him arrested for picking passengers along the road, in an unauthorized bus-stop. They slammed a penalty of N100,000 on him and when he could not pay up, they quickly arranged a Mobile Court and convicted him. before you could say Jack Robinson, they have shipped him to Badagry for imprisonment. All this happened on Friday, 6th of September, 2013.

Dear Nairalanders, what help is open to this guy before he rots in jail.

eightsin: Is this real or fiction? Cos it's funny. Life can't be this cruel.

Yungwizzzy: since he can't obey simple traffic rules let him go to jail na

pato station: This my guy, I will call JJ was an Okada Rider in Lagos until recently when the Fashola Administration banned (or should I say restricted) the Okada business in most parts of the state. Mr. JJ who has many mouths to feed made a smart move (at least so he thought) by obtaining a loan from a Micro Finance Bank to buy a brand new Keke Marwa. With that, he felt that his future and the future of his transport business is guaranteed. But he was mistaken. Weeks after purchasing the Keke, the government again wielded the big stick by once again "restricting" the Keke use in the state. JJ was confused and did not know what to do.

Before long, he got a helping hand from well-wishers in his church to buy a Tokumbo Toyota Camry car for use as "kabu-kabu" He registered the car and got a new plate number and started business. Within one week, members of the Lagos state "Task Force" got him arrested for picking passengers along the road, in an unauthorized bus-stop. They slammed a penalty of N100,000 on him and when he could not pay up, they quickly arranged a Mobile Court and convicted him. before you could say Jack Robinson, they have shipped him to Badagry for imprisonment. All this happened on Friday, 6th of September, 2013.

Dear Nairalanders, what help is open to this guy before he rots in jail.

Yungwizzzy: since he can't obey simple traffic rules let him go to jail na

aktolly54: I can't live in lagos, IB all the way. na lagos sh1t be that

Mr Aboki:


Your friend should have settled na..


Its too late now..

He either serves out his sentence or appeal..

Delafruita: there are things that happen in lagos that can be termed bizarre.I wouldn't wave the "stories" away because I know such things could happen in cases where overzealous officials have seen an opportunity to take advantage of others.its true they can't take advantage of you if you obeyed the law but if lagos itself isn't fully compliant with its own rules,it certainly shouldn't expect 100% from its inhabitants.moreover the real sign of advancement in a soceity isn't in how it treats its law abiding citizens,its in how it treats those that don't comply with the law.it should be noted that non-compliance with the law might not necessarily be same as breaking the law

I can believe the case of the OP because a similar fine was handed to my dad by VIO.infact his fine was 140k.I can remember how furios he was when I got to his house that night.he placed a call to Engr toriola who asked him to meet up that night.by the next morning,toriola reduced d fine to 20k and apologized for the overzealousness of his officials.in truth,my dad didn't comply with the law because his fire extinguisher was expired but then the officials claimed he was "proving right" and manufactured ridiculous offences like "dirty headlamp" etc each at 20k.

I doubt if any task force has the right to fine anyone.their duty is to take offenders before a mobile court.in cases of traffic offence,its usually the car that is impounded.however,there could be more to this than meets the eye.the man in question might not have diculged what truly happened.it could be a case of him "provinG right" and the officials desiring to stick it to him.the op said he was sentenced to a prison in badagry,that will mean the offence was committed within the jurisdiction of the badagry high court.there area thousands of taxis that operate along that axis and they are usually protected by their union.the op needs to tell us if the union has been contacted?what steps have they taken?the union has their way of resolving this issues.

This highandedness of lagos officials usually stems from the pressure mounted on them by their superiors to increase IGR.the LASG has created laws with such ridiculous fines all in a bid to generate money.the least fine VIO will give per offence is 20k.10 offences is 200k.that's absolutely ridiculous.the mobile courts are worse.offences which ordinarily should warrant a fine or community service now get long jail sentences with option of paying huge sums as fine.punishment for crimes should be set in a way that discourages people from commiting the crime and not in a way that makes people afraid of the system or disillusiones by it.

My simple advice for the op is to get a lawyer to ascertain what really happened.the jail sentence can be overturned and the fine reduced.that doesn't mean we will get emotional over the fact that he lost okada or napep.if he doesn't belong to the union,he should join them immediately this ordeal is over

pato station:

Mobile Court sentence; I don't know yet but I believe it's all about money

naturalwaves:


Yes, I agree with you and with virtually all the points you stated about the high handedness of those officers and the tendency to make an offender a scape goat BUT paying 30,000 naira to re open an office that was locked wrongly is a very very big lie except if there is more to the story that the OP isn't saying or maybe the OP is an illiterate ( cos he deserves an apology) or maybe the only outstanding bill he mentioned that the company paid is very outrageous and runs into hundreds of thousands.