I'd like to bring to our attention the new law on vehicle parking in Lagos State which was recently implemented (I believe) by the Lagos State Government and enforced by Lastma. Vehicles parked by the side or on the curbs of some major roads now have their vehicle number plates removed. The owner of the vehicle is then arraigned before a mobile court in absentia and fined.

During the visit of the Chief Security Officer of my establishment to the mobile court last week, he witnessed many motorists who were sentenced to 2 weeks of community service at the Gbagada General Hospital or a payment of a fine of N15,000.00 or both. Both processes of appearance in court and payment of the fine at Skye Bank, Alausa branch are tedious.

Please let's avoid the embarrassments this could cause and stay on the right side of the law.

Credit: Sis Agba.

THIS IS A NARRATION FROM A VICTIM

I had a very terrible experience yesterday morning on my way to work and I want people to learn from it. At about 10 am, I parked in front of a bank to use the ATM, I had barely come down from the car when I saw somebody videoing the cars parked in front of the bank. By the time I opened my car, I saw a fleet of Lagos state branded vehicles and so many people came down and started removing the plate number of cars including mine.

I came down from the car and forcefully tried stopping them from removing my plate number, explaining to them that I just came to use the ATM, then one of the police officers said to me "madam it's beyond us o, the Chief Judge is in that bus". I then went to the chauffeur driven beautiful bus in the fleet where I was told by the police escort to go and talk to the team on the road. The vehicles' plate numbers were removed, including mine and they put a paper in front of my car to come to Alausa.

Before going to Alausa, I went in to see them in the bank and I asked them, is this how you allow your customers to be maltreated ? They responded and I quote "they don't even know how to go about this Lagos revenue drive". On getting to Alausa, we were asked to wait, that the Chief Judge to sit at the mobile court is still on the road and they had an overflown office filled with people .

To cut my long story short, they already opened a case file for each of their so called offenders and they advised me to plead guilty before the magistrate otherwise the case will be adjourned till further notice "can you imagine that"? Eventually, I was charged guilty with a fine of N15k or an option of one week community work and some had N20k or N25k fine as the case maybe with an option of one month imprisonment etc.

A lady said she was inside Tantalizer in Ogba when her plate number was removed and both the prosecutor and the defender's lawyers were provided by the State Government. Can you beat that? All they were saying was "Lagos state needs to generate more revenue". My questions are: Must our dear State generate its revenue at the expense of its citizens? Where are we then supposed to park when visiting banks, eateries and shops? As we are meant to believe that most of the available spaces in front of the banks and other buildings are Government setbacks. These questions and more need answers.

Forewarned is forearmed as they were also spotted on Ajose Adeogun in Victoria Island this week. Nigeria is really waking up fast.

http://autojosh.com/lagos-state-new-revenue-generation-drive-read-this-if-you-dont-want-to-be-a-victim/

O ga o! The way Ambode is going, it seems he has suspended car parks in the atmosphere for us to use! Olorun a fun alagbara ni suru o!

Nawaaoo

Them go push us to violence soon

Just negodu! It's high time Lagos State government starts cutting the millions of naira Tinubu swallows everyday from Danfo, Keke maruwa and bike riders.




Ooops! I forgot Tinubu is Lagos State government and Lagos State government is Tinubu

is it a sin to drive a car in lagos state? if the government doesn't want people to drive cars anymore I think it's just proper to let people know. the harassment and embarrassment is getting out of hand. how can you arm-twist people into paying forced fines in the name of revenue generation? it's sickening to say the least. they ought to be ashamed of themselves; those at the helms of affairs.

This is supposed to be on the front page. Honestly Lagos state Govt is exploiting Lagosians in many ways.
I remember January when we drove past a road in Alausa, all of a sudden we saw RRS police men with all kinds of vehicle and towing Van behind us. We got to traffic and stop and as we were waiting for the traffic to signal green, one of their vehicle came closer to us and asked us why we bypassed that traffic. As we were asking the man which traffic, they came down and invaded our vehicle and ordered us to drive straight to task force office in Alausa. When we got there they refused to talk to us, seized our vehicle (Toyota Venza) and detained our driver. He was later release at very late hour but the vehicle was still seized. We were asked to come the next day for the vehicle. When the drive went to get the vehicle, he later called me that he has been charged to court. I thought it was a joke. I rushed to the task force when I got there, he was already bundle into black Maria and headed to court. Hmm.. I was like. What kind of problem is this. When I got to court, I saw people with different cases.. Some Street hawkers, some Dando drivers, some Street boys. But i discovered that non has a serious case, it was all about "generating revenue".
To cut the story short, our lawyer advised the driver to plead guilty even when we knew he was not guilty. He was fine 30k or serve 3months jail term. We went back to the task force paid the fee before we could finish it was 4pm and that day was on Friday.
The young man was remanded in in prison till the next Monday. He was release when we presented the papers showing the payment and all that. The vehicle was equally realeased but all our phone and most valuable items stolen.

I just hate lagos state, too too populated, population just to great for the small land scape, from incessant road hold ups, to agbero and police harassments, and now its in all new level.

Geez !! and I thought there were civilized people in Lagos.

Th is is too bad

APC's economic diversification drive at work.
As usual,d masses will bear d brunt.
This thread is front page worthy.
Lalasticlala.

Nice one OP

Welcome to the new Nigeria where the govt of the day both the States and Federal are determined to over burden us with unnecessary taxations.

People just be careful

Lagos is a sh!t city period!

Is this what Lagos has turned into? Why remove a car's plate #? I guess Lagos isn't that sophisticated to implement sophisticated systems

Who is driving what please?




I cant read.

this is why we seek for regionalism...so that many can all return to their states and develop them..so that we can actually know how much money lagos can drag out from people...tax na wetin lagos wan use barb people head and then later governor go bounce with agbada like say e solve one serious economic issue...meanwhile no constant light and good roads...no water...whilst taxes are being paid by many persons...

Lagos state and money

It can only happen in Nigeria. The non oil sector at work.

1Emmy:
This is supposed to be on the front page. Honestly Lagos state Govt is exploiting Lagosians in many ways.
I remember January when we drove past a road in Alausa, all of a sudden we saw RRS police men with all kinds of vehicle and towing Van behind us. We got to traffic and stop and as we were waiting for the traffic to signal green, one of their vehicle came closer to us and asked us why we bypassed that traffic. As we were asking the man which traffic, they came down and invaded our vehicle and ordered us to drive straight to task force office in Alausa. When we got there they refused to talk to us, seized our vehicle (Toyota Venza) and detained our driver. He was later release at very late hour but the vehicle was still seized. We were asked to come the next day for the vehicle. When the drive went to get the vehicle, he later called me that he has been charged to court. I thought it was a joke. I rushed to the task force when I got there, he was already bundle into black Maria and headed to court. Hmm.. I was like. What kind of problem is this. When I got to court, I saw people with different cases.. Some Street hawkers, some Dando drivers, some Street boys. But i discovered that non has a serious case, it was all about "generating revenue".
To cut the story short, our lawyer advised the driver to plead guilty even when we knew he was not guilty. He was fine 30k or serve 3months jail term. We went back to the task force paid the fee before we could finish it was 4pm and that day was on Friday.
The young man was remanded in in prison till the next Monday. He was release when we presented the papers showing the payment and all that. The vehicle was equally realeased but all our phone and most valuable items stolen.

Based on what you wrote here, you admitted to a crime you didn't commit, yet Lagos State government is at fault? Interesting!

[size=35pt]Lazy Government [/size]

Same thing almost happened to my grandma

She was parked in front of my uncle's house and before you can say Jack Robinson, there were already some people trying to remove her car's plate number

If not that her driver was in the car, he was the one that prevented them from removing the plate number

New day new policy, Lagos becoming a country of its own in Nigeria.... hmmmmm

Ambode na tinubu houseboy

Oga talk say cash don low

Okay

WHAT I DONT UNDERSTAND NW IS THAT HAS LAGOS TURN TO A COUNTRY AM SAYING THESE BECAUSE OF THE LAWS THEY MAKE DAYS ARE NUMBERED

I don talk am... lagos will soon be london.

That's what citizens get when they support lazy and incompetent unproductive idle men.

Nigeria's Public Sector is shameful. It has brought more embarrassment and harm to the country than good.

Bill Gate, Dangote, etc., did not generate their wealth in this shameful manner. Until Nigerians learn to speak up and engage only men with ideas, we'd continue to run a disgraceful, toxic and patho-bureaucratic government.

How we got the "developing" title is yet to be proven anyway. Our everyday actions reflect the idiosyncrasies of a typical underdeveloped economy.