LASG should enforce this law in Apapa, let them fulfill their promise.

Apapa is now a dustbin site, dirty, filthy and traffic gridlock every day.

One way driving is the best in Apapa if you don't want to sleep on the road.

The politicians who make this law are mostly the lawbreakers.

Please tell that man to tell his boss that they should obey the traffic law and warn their escort to stop distracting peoole with their siren.

First this law will create accidents and many more casualties on an already over crowded lagos as offenders will be desperate to get away not to get their vehicles seized even if means hitting pedestrians to get away.second this will create more corruption among enforcement agencies that can demand as much as a million naira from you.To put in their private pockets and not state cofers this the type of laws that make foreigners call Nigeria a monkey republic.why not impose heavy fines like its done in countries with saner government.Apc is actually encouraging corruption among our enforcement agencies on a bigger scale instead of fighting it who is fooling who.

Please hope there is no such laws for us that uses leg and have no car

Anyone else noticed that the offences and the penalties are world apart? 3 years for traffic offence? How many years for politicians stealing our money?

my own opinion, this menace of driving mad not obeying traffic is a long time craze in Lagos, the punishment fits it cos in other countries even in Ghana here i am sure that their traffic law is not lenient on offenders and cant be toyed with and for the fact that the law respects no nationals respect no skin colour respect no public status I commend the Lagos state effort and all the people saying it is not good the law is tough bla bla can you try this in US Russia, UK so talking as if its a normal thing, the reason why it looks normal is because gvts have been joking with such issues for long, today they take it serious tomorrow the officials would even be the ones encouraging such act after collecting bribe same should apply on waste management in the state. its because we spoil our states that is why when foreign nationals are encouraged to spoil it more, I think the Lagos state government should do more public awareness about the law and the consequence on media publications etc so they won't say they did not know also the presence RRS should be seen on all roads in lag so their impact would be felt, good job

Admin401:


We need iron hand. You can't treat monkey like white people, wtf!!!

carry your self-loathe out of this place.

capitalzero:
in poverty-ridden nation? 5 days of community services like clearing debris in gutter etc would have been better alternative.

It is currently happening in Lagos State Judiciary. Called Restorative Justice.
Plenty convicted of minor crimes are now doing community services.

Please this is too much. How can you forfeit a car of between 250k and 10m for a traffic offense? And jail time, when our prisons are already congested. I don't think it's fair to wait for those that would fall victim, civil rights organisations should take LASG to court over this. It's like saying if you steal meat from your mother's pot and someone steals millions from the bank, you both spend 7 years in prison.

AutoReportNG:


This is what I am saying, every states, countries, localities have their traffic rules and regulations. Once you know your state has crazy law on traffic, do everything to avoid being caught. You know that LASG will seize your car if you drive against traffic then, dont do it... its as simple as ABC

U just typed absolute rubbish

GentleMoney:

tontolets ex lol.

cr7lomo:


U just typed absolute rubbish

OK Sir... But there are ways you can make intelligent contribution without sounding stupid either

Admin401:


We need iron hand. You can't treat monkey like white people, wtf!!!

Correction, it should be: 'You can't treat monkey like pig, wtf!!!.'


When caricaturing races using animals you should always make the effort to balance the scale. if blacks are monkeys, whites are pigs or honkey ( the noise pigs make) and mixed race are honkeymonkeys , alright. Thanks.

delpee:
Well, I still see many vehicles driving one way in many areas. For instance. .Murtala Mohammed Way, Yaba, the Ijesha/Cele Okota link bridge etc

The punishment is too much in my opinion though. What will LASG do with the vehicles? Community service, jail time or heavy fine will be more reasonable.

That's not to say that I support lawlessness. Those who choose to disobey should be ready to face the music.

However there are some one way streets with no sign or signs that are not so visible which are used as trapping points by some unscrupulous officials.This should be addressed too.

yea, those who succeed taking the wrong way now regards themselves as smart drivers until luck will run out of them. na so dey catch us for abule egba side driving one-way, we know how much we forked out, sara money.

...this rather excessive for such traffic offence. ...i America is community service.

ideynl1:
This law does not make sense.

First, the root cause of some of these traffic offenses have been known to be bad roads, inadequate alternate routes, breakdown of vehicle, bad drainage during flood, tiny lanes and lack of traffic warden to coordinate traffic.

Secondly, they should have fixed these issues before pushing this law.

If there's free flow of traffic, I see no reason why someone will intentionally disobey traffic.

The governor should fix potholes, chase those trailer people and send more lastma agents to our roads. This will reduce traffic offenses

THERE IS NO LAW AGAIN

THEY ARE THE PROBLEM OF OUR LAND
WHEN THEY MAKE LAW
THEY ARE THE OFFENDER

eluquenson:
LASG should enforce this law in Apapa, let them fulfill their promise.

Apapa is now a dustbin site, dirty, filthy and traffic gridlock every day.

One way driving is the best in Apapa if you don't want to sleep on the road.

Apapa is a mess.

Autojosh abeg post the full picture, am using free nairaland bikonu

AutoReportNG:
The Lagos State Government is at war with traffic offenders in the state and it's taking the campaign against one-way, driving on BRT lane very seriously. The RRS team arrested two men who drove against the traffic at Ikeja.

According to RRS team who took to Twitter to warn drivers of the dangers of one-way driving said, these two traffic offenders who were arrested by our officers on Patrol along Opebi Road have been transferred to Lagos State Task Force and they’ve been charged to court. The verdict, forfeiture of the vehicles to the Lagos State Government. Please obey traffic rules to avoid your car being impounded.

A closer look, however, shows that the owners are Chinese national who were arrested by
the RRS officers for driving against traffic at Opebi, He has been told to forfeit his Lexus 4WD and Sienna to Lagos State Government.

Citing the Lagos State Traffic law, the RRS team said any vehicle that drives against traffic or passes through the BRT lane has committed an offense against the state. Read the code cited as obtained by AutoReportNG

Penalties for Neglect of Traffic Directions.

Where an officer of the Authority is for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic on a highway, or where any traffic sign being a sign for regulating the movement of traffic or indicating the route to be followed by vehicle has been lawfully placed on or near a highway in accordance with the provisions of this Law, any person driving or propelling any vehicle, who-

(a) Neglects or refuses to stop the vehicle or to make it proceed or to keep to a particular lane or direction of traffic when directed to do so by the officer in the execution of his duty; or

(b) Drives his vehicle against oncoming traffic or fails to conform to the direction or indication given by the traffic sign, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction for:
(i) 1st offender one (1) year imprisonment and forfeiture of the vehicle to the State;
(ii) 2nd and subsequent offender three (3) years imprisonment and forfeiture of the vehicle to the State.

(c) All offenders shall have their data and biometrics captured.

See pictures of the people arrested and their vehicles.

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Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/06/lagos-goes-tough-on-traffic-offenders.html

Some village winch don get meeting with lasg. Na many innocent mogu go fall victim in the name of nonsense law. Most rd no get road sign self, so i wonder who be dat drunk wey endorse such law.

In this hard times,it will not be advisable to make them forfeit their vehicles

I could have prefer death sentence for traffic offenders! Lol.

Wow

Seconded!

delpee:
Well, I still see many vehicles driving one way in many areas. For instance. .Murtala Mohammed Way, Yaba, the Ijesha/Cele Okota link bridge etc

The punishment is too much in my opinion though. What will LASG do with the vehicles? Community service, jail time or heavy fine will be more reasonable.

That's not to say that I support lawlessness. Those who choose to disobey should be ready to face the music.

However there are some one way streets with no sign or signs that are not so visible which are used as trapping points by some unscrupulous officials.This should be addressed too.

They cant cover the whole region at once coz dey still drive on brt lane in my area here in majidun towards ogolonto in Ikorodu here too.
I only pity those bike man taking brt lane coz a yellow bus driver sees a task force officer ahead of him, he will drive rough not considering any one coz he wont want to be arrested or his bus to be impounded.

I like the forfeiture part. Just change the colours to that of law enforcement and voila!!!, enough patrol vehicles then those envying the Mercs and Beemers of Dubai police can understand how it happens.

Punishment is too severe. It may be subject to abuse and biased application.

AutoReportNG:


This is what I am saying, every states, countries, localities have their traffic rules and regulations. Once you know your state has crazy law on traffic, do everything to avoid being caught. You know that LASG will seize your car if you drive against traffic then, dont do it... its as simple as ABC

Sometimes, people drive on one way unknowingly, maybe because of no sign, no not familiar with the area.
I once went to drop a friend in yaba, and she directed me to take a road that we both didn't know was a one way road. I had to pay a fine for that.
Making the penalty that stiff will seem unfair to people in such situations

Flier:
The government shouldn’t bread arm robber,if you the government collect means of livelihood of people they would end up knocking on your door to collect hard earn cash

It's a step in the right direction...... The type of congestion that happens in Lagos...... Cannot be healthy........

Starting work at 8am, but you leave your house @4am...... You trouble repeats itself on your way back home......

Either leave office very late or be prepared for another 4/5 drama in traffic......

Do you know the harm this csuses, on the long run.......