Lagos to auction 53 seized vehicles – TheNigerialawyer

The Lagos State Task Force on the Environment and Special
Offences (Enforcement) Unit has said it is set to auction vehicles
seized from traffic offenders.

The offenders had earlier been convicted by the court.

According to the agency, 31 vehicles impounded for traffic
offences and 22 abandoned by their owners for over six months after
their arrest will be auctioned.

The Chairman of the agency, Olayinka Egbeyemi, who said this in
a statement, noted that the owners of the impounded vehicles
contravened the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law, 2018,
adding that a public notice had been issued for the owners of both
the forfeited and abandoned vehicles to identify them at the
agency’s car parks in Ikorodu and Bolade in Oshodi.

Egbeyemi stated that owners of the forfeited vehicles pleaded
guilty before Magistrate Omobola Salawu of the Lagos State Mobile
Court at Oshodi for driving against the traffic, adding that each
offender was sentenced to 100 days of community service at any
public institution.

“At the expiration of the one-month verification exercise, the
agency shall apply to the court for an order of public auction,
where members of the public will have the opportunity to buy any of
these vehicles,” he said.

Egbeyemi, who added that the agency was awaiting directives from
the state government over impounded motorcycles, noted that over
7,350 motorcycles seized for plying restricted routes in the state
were in the custody of the agency.

The task force chairman reiterated the government’s zero
tolerance for the violation of the law, noting that the agency
would continue to prosecute traffic offenders until sanity was
restored on the roads and law-abiding citizens were allowed to
commute without being impeded by some lawless individuals.