62,477  Lagos Traffic Offenders Prosecuted In  One Year 

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The Lagos State mobile courts have arrested, arraigned and convicted 62,477 traffic offenders for various reasons in one year
The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice,  Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), disclosed this during the 2021 ministerial press  riefing of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice to mark two years in office of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in Alausa, Ikeja.
He noted that during the period under review, 62,477 persons had faced the law over various traffic offences, such as the use of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lane, street trading, driving against traffic, willful obstruction, as well as violation of the COVID-19 regulations.
He added: “The obile courts sit on Saturdays at different locations across in the state and deal largely with violators of COVID-19 regulations.”
He said the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had also issued 954 legal advice during the time frame.
“The DPP is currently prosecuting 1,860 cases at the High Courts and  Magistrate’s Courts, including 10 offenders who have been so far charged over attacks on officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA).
“The Community Service Unit of the DPP during the review period (April 2020 – April 2021), also supervised 557 community service sentences.
“The community service sentences were for street trading, loitering, fighting and environmental offences,” he said.
Onigbanjo noted that the Directorate of Civil Litigation had obtained 18 rulings and 34 judgments in favour of the Lagos State government.
He said that the Directorate had helped the state government reduce contingent liabilities with suits worth N95 billion being dismissed by the courts.
Onigbanjo, while citing an example of such cases, said the Federal High Court on February 3, 2021, in Olukoya Ogungbeje v Lagos State Government and 7 Others, affirmed the position of the state government restricting the the use of motorcycles and tricycles as a means of transportation on specific routes within the six Local Government Areas and 9 Local Development Areas in the state.
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