Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday came down hard on some
motorists who drove against traffic along the Muritala Mohammed Airport
Road in Ikeja.
In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary Habib
Aruna on Tuesday, the governor decried the flagrant abuse of the State
Traffic Laws.
Ambode who was returning from Abuja where he had
attended an event apprehended a Nigerian Army personnel who drove a
space bus with registration number JJJ 290 AC.
On sighting the
vehicle, he alighted from his car and reprimanded the officer for
“showing a bad example” contrary to what the Nigeria Army is known for.
The
governor reprimanded another offender who drove a saloon car with
registration number LSR 445 ER, for breaking the law regardless of the
dangers involved in driving against traffic.
He condemned the
manner at which some motorists drive ‘one way’ to beat the traffic along
the Nigerian Air force Base inward International Airport Road in the
Ikeja axis.
Governor Ambode, thereafter, ordered the immediate
seizure of the vehicles and directed that the offenders be prosecuted in
line with the provisions of the traffic laws on the state.
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