Desola:

How can it be civil when it is clearly criminal? This isn't between two individuals or corporate body but between and individual and the state so it is most definitely criminal. Yes, the penalty might be extremely harsh but he could have killed someone in the process. Must we wait until someone dies before getting strict on such offences?

cyril83: Very soon this may lead to a serious war in lagos,d punishment is too harsh chei wtf...its nt like diz in developed countries

kj_hova:

Hey @Desola,
States should purnish offenders for the offences actually committed and not the ones they could have committed. That is not justice, that will be brigandage! Moreso, the accused is a first offender and possibly has no criminal record. In sane societies, such people, especially in a civil case like this, are charged with misdemeanor and not criminal breakage. Aren't our prisons overcrowded already? This is our sincere argument.

Seun: If the punishment does not fit the crime, it is not justice. 1 year jail term does not fit this crime, and that's all there is to it.
When we read about Shariaists stoning girls for getting pregnant, we are indignant, because even though it works, it's not just.
The solution to petty crimes is not to make the punishment unreasonable and wicked, but to enforce reasonable penalties consistently.

HNosegbe: You know, I am so pissed by the way our leaders think sometimes. For the love of God, why send a traffic offender to prison? The same prison that contain hardened criminals? Is there even space available in those prisons? Have they considered the impact of the stigma that he'll suffer for the rest of his life by reason of being an ex-convict? So you wanna ruin a person's life simply because he drove against traffic? Do they think an ex-convict has any shot at a real life in this country?

Whatever happened to good old community service? What about 24 hours cleaning the streets with the street sweepers? What about joining LAWMA to dispose refuse? What about simply paying a fine that would be commensurate with the person's perceived net worth? Why must it be imprisonment? Are these people thinking at all?

THIS LAW IS DRACONIAN!!!

Adrenaline: Does this law apply to [b]Fire-fighters, Mopol responding to armed robbery distress calls, ambulances [/b]and all? I really need an answer o cos its these group of people that are most likely to endanger people's lives when they speed recklessly through one way roads

Desola:

It would not apply to the state emergency services and some private hospital ambulances, I suppose. It shouldn't.

Billyonaire: I love the new traffic law, but 1 year is too much for that offense. By the way, someone please help me tell PHCN to take light for my estate. Too much of everything is a disease.

Billyonaire: I love the new traffic law, but 1 year is too much for that offense. By the way, someone please help me tell PHCN to take light for my estate. Too much of everything is a disease.

Desola:

It would not apply to the state emergency services and some private hospital ambulances, I suppose. It shouldn't.

Reference:

That's it. Once you start making exceptions, the next thing you'll hear is government issuing permits for this and that and then money bags latch on and the whole thing caves in. 1983 import waiver scandal all over again. Just make laws you can live with no matter the cost.

Desola:

It would not apply to the state emergency services and some private hospital ambulances, I suppose. It shouldn't.