The Lagos State Taskforce in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Justice have auctioned 134 forfeited and abandoned vehicles in the state.

The auction exercise, which was held at the Taskforce compound in Ikeja, Lagos State on Thursday, witnessed members of the public troop out in numbers to participate in the sale of vehicles which were confiscated for various traffic offences ranging from driving on one-way to willful obstruction of traffic across various parts of the state.

Speaking to newsmen at the event, the chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, CSP Shola Jejeloye, said: “My role as a police officer is to carry out enforcement exercises one of which is confiscation of vehicles for traffic offenses, and handing them over to the mobile court for judgement. I don’t determine the fate our outcome of any vehicle brought before the magistrate in court.

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“Some of the cars being auctioned here were confiscated for obstruction of traffic which only attracts a fine but some people never showed up to claim these cars thats why they have been forfeitted to the state government after the stipulated period and then auctioned.”

Jejeloye further enjoined Lagosians to desist from committing crime or traffic offences, saying no one would be spared if found wanting.

He added that the exercise would serve as a dettrent to other road users who are fond of driving against traffic, waning that the long arm of the law would soon catch up with them.

He said the enforcement exercise would continue in earnest to ensure that sanity is maintained on the roads following the ban on the activities of Okada operators in some parts of the state.

Also speaking at the event, the coordinator of the Lagos State Special Offenses Mobile Court, Mrs Arinola Ogbara-Banjoko, described the exercise as seemless and well organised.

She disclosed that all 134 abandoned vehicles on display had gone through due process of the court of law before being forfeited to the state government for various offences.

The Star