The
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola yesterday arrested a police
officer, identified as Ebahan Johnson, who violated the new traffic law by
riding his 100 CC commercial motorcycle popularly called Okada on the Agege
Motor Road, Ikeja. The governor accosted the police officer on the expressway
during an inspection tour of ongoing projects in the Lagos-West Senatorial
District of the state, while riding a red Bajaj motorcycle.
The
officer who resisted arrest earlier, succumbed when he realised that he was
accosted by the governor, who had warned that Okada should not ply the express
road with a motorcycle with such capacity and without helmet. Fashola on the
arrest said: “There is no one that is above the law. If anyone cannot submit itself
to the law of the state, then that person should please leave the state.” He
warned that the state government would not condone violation of the road
traffic law of the state, which was signed into law to bring sanity back to
road transportation.
He
said: “There is no society where laws are not broken, but the state government
will increase its enforcement for residents to comply with. And as we move on
the road and we see any one violating the law, we will stop and arrest them.”
On the officer, the governor stated that the officer would be handed over to
the Commissioner of Police, Umar Mankko for proper prosecution.
“I
am sure he would be prosecuted,” Fashola stated. Meanwhile, hundreds of traders
of Katangowa, Agbado-Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area, (LCDA),urged the
state government to halt its plan to relocate the market for the construction
of the new Lagos State Digital Village presently located in Ikeja Area of
Lagos.
Source;
Sun
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