Please I'll like to bring to our attention the new law on vehicle parking in Lagos State which was recently implemented (I believe) by the state and enforced by Lastma. Vehicles PARKED by ROADSIDES or CURBS in front of buildings 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 bring about and stay on the right side of the law.....: PLEASE Read and be Cautious.!!!!!!!

THIS IS FROM A VICTIM

I had a very terrible experience yesterday morning on my way to work and I want people to learn from. At about 10am yesterday morning 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 the car I saw fleet of Lagos state branded vehicles 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 madam it's beyond us o the chief judge is in the bus, I then went ahead to open chauffeur driven beautiful bus in the fleet and I was told by the police escort to go and talk to the team on the road, the vehicle plate numbers including mine was removed 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 said 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 overflow 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 I have 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 15k or an option of fine of one week community work, some had 20k and 25k as the case maybe with option of one month imprisonment. A lady said she was inside Tantalizer in ogba when her plate number was removed. Both the prosecutor and defender lawyers were provided by them.,can you beat that, all they were saying is Lagos state needs to generate more revenue. My questions are:: Must Our dear state generate her revenue at the expense of her citizens?? Where are we then supposed to park when visiting, the banks ,Eatery, shops ,as we are meant to believe most of these space in front of banks and others are Government set backs. These questions and more, need answers. May God help us o.

Op am so sorry about that, This is really shocking. Banks, eatery, churches, business centres, and plazas if you don't have good car park you no go see my brake light

Wow! Lagos state needs to generate more revenue at the expense of its citizens in this Buharian era? 15k just like that? God have mercy!