The Lagos state government on Friday inaugurated mobile courts where traffic offenders would be tried and given immediate punishments where applicable in line with the state’s traffic laws.
While inaugurating the court, the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade noted that the court would move around in buses. She emphasized that the end had come to “the era of recklessness and impunity on our public roads and highways.”
The Chief Judge regretted that unruly road users, who daily cut the lives of innocent citizens short and caused traffic snarl leading to wastage of productive hours on the roads, had gone unpunished.
She said the traffic offenders would no longer go unpunished as the mobile courts signified the state’s determination “to fully enforce the extant traffic laws in the state and take stiffer measures against road traffic offenders.”
“Those who chose to make life difficult for other people, especially on our roads, should have a re-think, as they would henceforth be held accountable for their deeds.
“Flagrant disregard or violation of traffic rules with impunity is unacceptable and as such, must be discouraged and condemned by all” she said.
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