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The idea behind obtaining a roadworthiness certificate for every vehicle in Lagos is a brilliant one. Each vehicle is supposed to pass specific tests before being certified. The certificate is valid for one year. So this means that the tests are once every year for every vehicle registered in Lagos.

The tests cover vehicle components such as the horn, brake system, indicator lights, headlights, windscreen, mirrors, tyres, emission level, fire extinguisher, C Caution, jack, etc

With this, it's obvious that the problem of broken down vehicles, accidents, or vehicles that are not roadworthy should be eliminated or greatly minimised if the checks are strictly applied to all vehicles registered in Lagos

However, are they being enforced on commercial vehicles, especially yellow buses, koropes and danfos?

I have visited the Ojodu, Oshodi and Ojota offices of the Lagos Computerised Vehicle Inspection Centre. During my stay of several hours at each of the Centres, I did not see any danfo, korope or trucks. I spoke to other motorists who also reported not seeing them.

Does it mean that the stringent tests do not apply to them? If they do, when and where do they visit the inspection centres for the tests?

If they do go for the tests, why are defective danfos still so many on Lagos roads? Danfos and koropes without mirrors, indicator and brake lights and with broken or no windscreens are a common sight.

Who is going to fix this problem? Or is there a racket somewhere?

If those buses pass through road worthiness tests, at least 90% will fail woefully. Majority of those buses are owned by high ranking lastma and VIO officials or their friends that help them bypass the process. The privileges they enjoy on the roads, we the private motorists can only dream of.

They don’t.

It's not about the road worthiness of the vehicles, it's all about the IGR

surgical:
It's not about the road worthiness of the vehicles, it's all about the IGR

A road tax would have easily done that.

Sheuns:
They don’t.

Oh my

Really?

slimfit1:
A road tax would have easily done that.

True

Sheuns:
They don’t.

They do, in much the same way that Obasa got political worthiness certificate as a redeemed saint of Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Crooks, APC.
Datsall



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg_1mly5Gm8?si=eVtbTtS707pJyGNk

chisomkachy:
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn the alleged money laundering suit it filed at the Federal High Court against Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.

Naija News understands that the anti-graft did not give any particular reason for its application for withdrawal.

Following the application to withdraw, Justice Nicholas Oweibo discharged the ‘lien/Post No Debit’ placed on Obasa’s three accounts in Standard Chartered Bank.

The accounts are (US Dollars) 0001852063; (Current) 0001852056 and (Saving) 5002309624.

The judge also set aside the ex-parte orders he made on September 15, 2020, which led to the freezing of the accounts.

Recall that the court on September 15, 2020, granted an interim order freezing Obasa’s accounts following the EFCC’s application in a suit marked FHC/LCS/1064/2020.

The agency had said it was investigating the Speaker for the alleged offences of conspiracy, diversion of funds, abuse of office and money laundering.

But Justice Oweibo, on August 16, 2023, heard the application to unfreeze the accounts in his chamber.

During the hearing, the EFCC was represented by Mr. Sulaiman I. Sulaiman, while Obasa was represented by Mr. Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN).

The EFCC lawyer told the court that the application to unfreeze the accounts was pursuant to Section 44(2)(K) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Sections 26, 29 and 34 (1) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004, and under the court’s inherent jurisdiction.

Section 44 of the Constitution concerns constitutional rights to property.

Justice Oweibo held: “It is hereby ordered that an order is hereby granted to the respondent/applicant setting aside the ex-parte orders of this court made on the 15th day of September 2020 upon the ex-parte motion of the Applicant/ Respondent in relation the funds of the Respondent/Applicant domiciled in the accounts stated in the following schedule:

“ACCOUNT NAME, FINANCIAL ACCOUNT INSTITUTIONS, TYPE OF ACCOUNT, 1. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered, (US Dollars) 0001852063 2. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Current) 0001852056 3. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Saving) 5002309624.

“Issued at Lagos, under the seal of this Honourable Court and by the hands of the Presiding Judge this 16th day of August 2023.”

https://dailytimesng.com/obasa-efcc-withdraws-suit/

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https://www.nairaland.com/6168612/obasa-court-orders-efcc-freeze#94741534

slimfit1:
A road tax would have easily done that.

That is obviously not enough for the greedy olojukokoros who have destroyed Lagos with forever increaing revenues (IGR and federal allocation) as well as loans that are not matched by improved common services and utilities by adequate number of civil servants.

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#Statisense
(The Economist)

Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low

A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.

Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.

The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.

'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.

"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.

"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.

He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.

''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.

''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.

''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.

The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.

From: http://www.punchng.com/politics/lawm...rporation-low/
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=mes_capstones;Ensuring

i did my roadworhiness at lasu center on tuesday. i saw a danfo that came for the same process. last year i saw two okada that came for same thing at the vehicle computerised test center at lasu.

Overrated city.

Truth is that they don’t collect

Road worthiness for danfo wey get 10 drivers?

They get it from Oluwole

Danfo wey dey use engine braking

Brake don scatter

Not only Lagos. 95% of commercial vehicles in Abuja are in utter state of disrepair. No break, no lights, no horn, disfigured body, wobbling tires, smokey, zero regard for traffic rules and other road users… all driven by a bunch of mad men high on cheap and adulterated drugs. The most annoying part is that the Road Safety, regular and traffic police would see them and look away. Nigeria is a matured jungle.

That's Tinubu Structure

U dey ask me, ask LASG.

Lool

LightHousedey:
Overrated city.

Anyone forcing you to stay there? The people there are not complaining so focus on your own city.

Egunje spoil lagos

Those that have, they get it same way our politicians get to win elections and receive certificate of return.

Globad:
The idea behind obtaining a roadworthiness certificate for every vehicle in Lagos is a brilliant one. Each vehicle is supposed to pass specific tests before being certified. The certificate is valid for one year. So this means that the tests are once every year for every vehicle registered in Lagos.

The tests cover vehicle components such as the horn, brake system, indicator lights, headlights, windscreen, mirrors, tyres, emission level, fire extinguisher, C Caution, jack, etc

With this, it's obvious that the problem of broken down vehicles, accidents, or vehicles that are not roadworthy should be eliminated or greatly minimised if the checks are strictly applied to all vehicles registered in Lagos

However, are they being enforced on commercial vehicles, especially yellow buses, koropes and danfos?

I have visited the Ojodu, Oshodi and Ojota offices of the Lagos Computerised Vehicle Inspection Centre. During my stay of several hours at each of the Centres, I did not see any danfo, korope or trucks. I spoke to other motorists who also reported not seeing them.

Does it mean that the stringent tests do not apply to them? If they do, when and where do they visit the inspection centres for the tests?

If they do go for the tests, why are defective danfos still so many on Lagos roads? Danfos and koropes without mirrors, indicator and brake lights and with broken or no windscreens are a common sight.

Who is going to fix this problem? Or is there a racket somewhere?

They have a bribery regime the sees VIO and other govt agency not apprehend them on the road. so basically they dont have road worthiness

dominique:
If those buses pass through road worthiness tests, at least 90% will fail woefully. Majority of those buses are owned by high ranking lastma and VIO officials or their friends that help them bypass the process. The privileges they enjoy on the roads, we the private motorists can only dream of.

What do you mean by 90% of them will fail?

I was expecting you to say 99.99% abi no be these rubbish I deh see for lagos roads everyday?

Dem dey remit to ogas them.

: Are you joking??
You want the third arm of the government to go for inspection?
People that are above the law.
Road safety, lastna and police dear not arrest them.
That's how it works here

Lol

So you wan pursue all the Danfo and korope comot from road, how money go enter national pockets?? 😹

What they have is road unworthiness...

Hehehe.. this will be the joke of the month to think of how?
In their present state, to say the least, it will be "impossicant" (in Obi Ezekwesili's expression)!
Perhaps it's the poster's sarcastic way of asking of how they can be scrapped permanently!

Worthiness kwa? Who is worthy in Nigeria except ndi Igbo.


Now watch as werey people will start attacking me below.

That’s why dy pay police on a daily basis bro..
It’s to cover all this certificates and dues that should have gone as IGR

No

Lol they don't have any Road worthiness.

Danfo send you for road worthiness ..!🤣🤣