Lagos State‎ Government commence arrest motorists who buy goods in traffic

   Lagos State‎ Government has commenced arrest and prosecution of motorists who buy goods in traffic.
   The enforcement was confirmed when officials of the Environmental Sanitation Corps Agency, LASECORPS,   arrested six motorists at Ikeja, along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway for allegedly buying goods in the traffic.

   The offenders’ vehicles were also impounded by the agency and were accused of breaching the environmental law and brought before a magistrate, Olayiwola Ogundare of the Ogba Magistrate’s Court, who sentenced them to three months’ imprisonment each.
   Ogundare, however, gave the accused an option of N10,000 fine each, adding that each of the motorists should pay additional N20,000 fine into the state coffers.
Speaking with newsmen, the  Head of Public Affairs Unit for LASECORPS, Rahmat Alabi, said the arrest was in line with the Environmental Sanitation Law, 2015.