Lagos radio Nigeria info 99.3 had a chat with Mr Fashola who was introduced as the head of the lagos vehicle inspection service. He amongst other issues outlined how the new law of the state concerning issuance of motor road worthiness certificate. He emphasized that any vehicle captured in Lagos without a Lagos issued roadworthiness certificate will be fined. This sounds preposterous, illegal and unconstitutional. We know that thousands of motorists come into Lagos for various reasons. Does this mean that they have to carry multiple roadworthiness certificates depending on the number of states they pass through to go to Lagos? What will it be like for any motorist in Lagos to carry multiple roadworthiness certificates because you have to pass through Ogun, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Anambra, Imo and Abia states to get to Rivers state. Why will Lagos state insist on its own certificate when it is called a national roadworthiness certificate? How did Lagos get to this level of desperation to raise internally generated revenue? Is this just as a result of enjoying the near monopoly of Nigeria's seaports? What types of human beings gathered to make such a law for a state under the federation? They probably think that they are beyond the effects of this fraud. However, time will soon prove otherwise as their terms in the legislative assembly is fixed and all the present aloofness will end. How can one explain that a vehicle that just returned to Lagos from Imo state and took a roadworthiness certificate at Edo because the previous certificate expired at that point has been fined in Lagos for not yet taking a certificate from Lagos? So many stories abound on this illegality and the state think it is smiling to the bank with IGR. Does common sense not reveal that this is a good reason the state facilities will be easy targets at the slightest chance. Endsars experience should remain a significant lesson that when the state violently defrauds the people, there can always be consequences. Lagos state as a matter of urgency should abrogate this VIS law that Mr Fashola claims to be in existence.

You will know how useless this rule is when yo arrest those northerner owned trucks bringing down hundreds of people fleeing the poverty in the North to Lagos. The passengers will first descend on the Lagos authorities and deal with them properly.

I think it's for commercial vehicles.

mployer:
I think it's for commercial vehicles.

That even makes it worse. Agofure motors will have to pay afresh foe all its buses, same as all the others. And this will be repeated in all other states across the federation.

Lagos is now being run by MC Oluomo.