Is the Lagos state one-way and forfeiture law justified?
This one-way and issue of forfeiture in Lagos state is likely going to end up being a tool for oppression - Claudia. We are quick to introduce laws without weighing in on all sides of the matter first to identify loopholes and tighten all lose ends to ensure that the law can be sustained. Forfeiture for way-one way traffic offense is good only if government had first put in the work of marking routes and installing cameras. If not, how do they intend to prove these cases? Perhaps they do not intend to prove anything, they just want to seize and auction cars. Anything to make the masses cry out! Who are the advisers of government? LASG putting people like the (existing) LASTMA and FRSC officials who would almost strangle a passenger over seatbelt offense, who would jump on moving vehicles to prove a point or beat a driver to coma just to flex power is a dangerous move. Where there are no clearly marked or labelled roads and CCTV cameras to prove the law has been broken, how ...