The Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement Unit) has obtained an order from the Lagos State Mobile Court to auction 88 forfeited vehicles.
The vehicles were impounded for violating traffic rules, particularly driving against traffic.
Chairman of the task force, Shola Jejeloye, the drivers of the vehicles were arraigned before the mobile court, which ordered their forfeiture.
Jejeloye said the public auction would hold on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, at the agency’s car park, Alausa, Ikeja.
“I want to urge motorists, both private and commercial bus drivers, to desist from driving against the traffic as the penalty is outright forfeiture of such vehicle to the government without any option of fine,” Jejeloye said.
The Coordinator of the Lagos State Mobile Court, Arinola Banjoko, said the owners and drivers of the 88 vehicles were arraigned before Chief Magistrate Michael Olubi, Magistrate Lateef Layeni, Magistrate Oyebimbola Adelakun, Magistrate Ibidun Abina and Magistrate Shakirat Obasa.
He added that other traffic offenders caught plying the Bus Rapid Transit corridors or those causing obstruction to other road users were also arraigned and fined by the court.
