From what I think, it's seems the Lagos traffic that has recently returned is a deliberate attempt by the LASTMA officials to undermine the authority of Governor Ambode. For me personally, I'm happy about the ban not to seize/impound vehicles from motorist because I have been a victim of that.
The Friday to the week the announcement was made by the governor, I parked my car properly in one of the car parks in Oshodi. Unfortunately, my car was exactly a week old that day and I have used this said car park numerous times without any incidence.
However, they showed up suddenly with a Police squad and I was arrested along with another man for illegal parking.
Now the arrest wasn't really an issue, but the untold hardships I had to go through before I got my car back. First of all, I was booked twice for the same offence. This amounted to #40,000 instead of #20,000.
Still, it didn't end there. I had to pay extra #15,000 for tax clearance, demurrage, and to gauge the deflated tires.
It wasn't an easy experience because I had to run around to borrow money because of the daily increase of the demurrage.
I got the car out on Monday while the announcement was made on Thursday for people to go and pick up their seized vehicles.
It was a very painful experience because I'm yet to pay back the #55k I borrowed.
But it's still a relief that my car won't be booked again, at least for now.
However, the traffic? Really unbearable.
I just hope solution is found ASAP.
Thank you.