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LAGOS State Government new traffic law has claimed its first casualty…
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Reports:
LAGOS
State Government has impounded a bullion van and arrested its driver for
driving against traffic. Policemen attached to the state Taskforce on
Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit made the arrest in Apapa
on Tuesday [Aug 28].
It was
gathered on Wednesday that the government would arraign the bullion van driver,
Seun Odukoya, based on its new road
traffic law.
The law
stipulates a one-year jail term without the option of fine for first offender
who drove against the traffic and three years for subsequent offender without
an option of fine.
The law
also says the government will confiscate the vehicle used in committing the
offence. It was gathered that the bullion van with registration number BV 171
BDG, which was arrested on Creek Road, Apapa, belong to Bankers’ Warehouse.
The van
was conveying money to a new generation bank in the area before the arrest.
A police
source said, “Officials of the warehouse
later came with another van to transfer the money from the impounded van to the
new generation bank”.
Odukoya,
in a statement in the Alausa office of the task force said, “I drove against traffic because the road
was blocked”.
Task force
Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman, confirmed
the arrest. According to him the new traffic law will be used to prosecute Odukoya to serve as deterrent to
others.
He said, “Drivers in this state must obey the law of
the land. The traffic law is not punitive but corrective”.
“The court will decide the fate of the
driver and the bullion van”.
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