The Lagos State Police Command has impounded 188 motorcycles and 78 tricycles as well as arrested 40 persons for refusing to comply with the ban on motorcycles and tricycles in certain areas of the state.
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The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, who said this in a statement on Sunday revealed that the Commissioner of Police (CP) , Hakeem Odumosu on Saturday deployed commanders to enforce the okada ban.
Some of the officers deployed are Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, State Traffic Officers, to enforce the state road traffic laws that restricted motorcycles and tricycles from operating on certain routes in the state.
Other personnel deployed were Area Traffic Officers, Divisional Traffic Officers, the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences.
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Elkana also revealed that Very Important Personality (VIP) escort vehicles without number plates, vehicles with defaced and covered number plates and vehicles driving against the traffic were also impounded.
According to Elkana, the commissioner of police, Hakeem Odumosu has urged all Lagos residents to comply with the new directive.
His statement reads;
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, had on February 1, 2020, deployed Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, State Traffic Officers, Area Traffic Officers, Divisional Traffic Officers, Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences and other police officers across the state to fully enforce the provisions of the Road Traffic Laws, especially the ban on the use of motorcycles, popularly known as okada, and tricycles, also known as keke, in some local government areas and routes across the state.
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Elkana added that;
The total ban as announced by the Lagos State Government took effect from 00.00 hours on February 1, 2020. The Commissioner of Police went around the state to monitor compliance and expressed his satisfaction with the level of compliance.
According to Elkana, the CP personally arrested some motorcycle and tricycle operators seen contravening the traffic laws as well as impounding twenty-two vehicles were impounded.
In the statement, the Odumosu reiterated that no one was above the law and called on Lagos residents, irrespective of their social status, to support the police in their quest to provide a safe and secure state for everyone to live in and to carry out their lawful businesses.
Elkana added that the enforcement was a continuous exercise that would be done every day for 24 hours, adding that violators would be dealt with in accordance with the extant laws on traffic.
