Lisa
It is said that, there are no transgressions in a lawless Land, but ofcourse, there will definitely be transgressions and penalties in a Lawful land; like Nigeria. Most significantly, Among the 36 States in Nigeria, Lagos, so as to attain orderliness among its overpopulated residents, is a state that has an, almost uncountable Laws which must be obey by its residents. And attached to these Laws are highly disciplined Lagos State Government Officers (e.g LASTMA), that had been trained to serve as watchdogs in neighborhoods, communities, and Lagos roads. So as, to hunt breachers of those Laws, and to impose penalties, or fines attached to each Law breached, on the breacher.
Moving Forward, Recently, the Lagos State Government, through one of its prominent watchdogs, Lagos state traffic management agency (LASTMA), ceased and auctioned some motors, because their owners breached the traffic laws. So, those vehicles, ofcourse that were initially bought by their owners with millions, were all auctioned and bidders re-bought them, from the Lagos State Government: the auctioneers, with little amount close to pennies.
This heartfelt scenario, influenced the body of information central, to flinched into intensive investigation and research, on how to minimize the high rate of motorist breaching lagos roads laws. Firstly, it was discovered that, one of the reasons, motorist, driving in Lagos, breached the Traffic laws was perharps because they were ignorance of these Laws, or they knew little of them and were not even aware of the penalties or fines attached to each law, if it’s being breached. We believe, if we all, begin to give enough publicity on; Radios, TV, blogs and social Medias to these Laws, There would be a rapid decrease in the large numbers of the traffic law breachers.
So, the 36 Lagos Traffic Laws are Painstaking Stated Below
- Driving without a Driver’s licence – Impound vehicle.
- Driving of any vehicle by a person under 18 – N30,000.
- Driving with fake number plates – N30,000, 3 years in prison.
- Driving with forged vehicle particulars – 6 months in prison.
- Driving with a fake driver’s licence – 6 months in prison.
- Driving without road worthiness – Impound vehicle.
- Driving only yellow – N80,000. Enforce painting
- Driving without Hackey permit – Impound vehicle.
- No display of Hackey permit – Impound vehicle
- Kabu Kabu without a permit – Impound vehicle
- Disobeying LASTMA Officer – N30,000/
- Impound vehicle.
- Neglect of traffic direction light – 3 months in prison.
- Smoking while driving – N30,000/Impound vehicle.
- Physically assault traffic officer – N50,000/6 months in prison.
- Driving without full light – N50,000.
- Driving with worn-out tyres – N30,000.
- Driving without a spare tyre – N30,000
- Driving smoking vehicle – N30,000
- No fire extinguisher – N30,000
- Broken windscreen – N30,000
- Tinted windscreen – N30,000
- Eating and driving with one hand – 3 months in prison.
- One-way driving – 3 years in prison
- Driving without fastening seat belt – N30,000
- Not painting a commercial vehicle the approved colour – N50,000
- No car hire service permit – 1st 20,000; 2nd N30,000, Impound vehicle
- Parking on the yellow line on any public highway/illegal parking – 1st N20,000; subsequent N30,000
- Vehicle crossing double yellow line/centre line – 1st N20,000; subsequent N30,000.
- Staying within the yellow junction box (offside rule) – 1st N20,000; subsequent N30,000
- Failure to yield to the right of the way of a pedestrian at a zebra crossing – 1st N20,000; subsequent N30,000
- Failure to give to traffic on the left at a roundabout – 1st N20,000; subsequent N30,000.
- Driving on walkway or kerb – Impound
- Reversing on the highway & parking on walkways – 50,000 naira
- Obstruction of traffic -20,000 naira
- Picking/Dropping passengers on illegal B/stop -50,000 naira
- Driving on BRT lanes – 70,000
Lisa