The Lagos State Government through the Lagos Ministry of Transportation has placed an indefinite ban on the operations of its enforcement team tagged M.O.T Taskforce.
The action by the state government might not be unconnected to the series of criticisms that has trailed the mode of operation of this special committee.
Making the announcement, the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Transportation, Mr. Sola Giwa, stated that the decision was reached after a thorough appraisal and review of the enforcement teams operating under the Ministry of Transportation.
Giwa explained that the ban is part of measures initiated to streamline transport enforcement activities in Lagos State to achieve the required effectiveness in line with global best practices, warning that the ban is not an excuse for drivers to disobey the traffic laws of the State.
The Special Adviser averred that Traffic Management and Transportation is a cardinal pillar in the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda of the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, stressing that the readjustment of the enforcement strategy was to enhance service delivery to the people of the State.
Giwa asked members of the public to report the activities of any unauthorised enforcement team still operating with the tag M.O.T Taskforce to the Ministry of Transportation for prosecution.
He also appealed to Lagosians to cooperate with the State Government in its effort to improve the traffic situation across the metropolis, the Special Adviser gave an assurance that a lot is ongoing behind the scene to bring the much-desired change in the transport sector.
What you should know
- Recall that in January 2020, the Lagos State Government had inaugurated a special MOT enforcement committee to oversee issues that border on vehicles that are abandoned on highways and major streets in the state as part of measures to further ease free flow of traffic within the metropolis.
- However, the special team set up to remove abandoned vehicles have been enmeshed in series of controversies and allegations bordering on brutality and extortion of vehicle owners in the state.
- They sometimes operate on roads that are outside their terms of reference or had been assigned to them.
Good initiative
Better to disband their activicties because they operate outside of heir jurisdiction in the name of making m**ny.
Kudos to LSG on this plan and hope more of f this initiative should come on board especially the activicties of the LASTMA team should be checkmated fast.these are armed robbers in government Uniform.
Thank you @ Sonwo- Olu.
Those task Force guys are criminals ….They are everywhere…exhorting money from motorist…They don’t listen to common sense…If your car is doing over heating and you park for the car to cool off, they will toll your car. Evil men
This so called task force collected 40k from me just because I stopped at an empty bus stop at ikeja. The painful thing was I was still in my car. The engine of my car was still running. I only wanted to do something quickly with my phone. They blocked me with a tolling van and force me out of my car. Drove it to their office. When go to the office I realise I was not the only one. People were screaming at the top of their voice demanding their cars to be released. This fell on deaf ears as d have rehearsed their strategies of extortion.
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Meanwhile, there were over six pos vendors assisting dem to withdraw money.
They boasted that nobody can make them to released any vehicle.
That period was a bad time for me. I have to start calling people to assist me cos they demanded for 75k initially. They only called 40k cos that was all I could generate.
I was asked to thank them else they change their mind.
It was just a bad experience.
This so called task force collected 40k from me just because I stopped at an empty bus stop at ikeja. The painful thing was I was still in my car. The engine of my car was still running. I only wanted to do something quickly with my phone. They blocked me with a tolling van and force me out of my car. Drove it to their office. When i got to their office ,I realise I was not the only one. People were screaming at the top of their voice demanding their cars to be released. This fell on deaf ears as they have rehearsed their strategies of extortion.
Meanwhile, there were over six pos vendors assisting dem to withdraw money.
They boasted that nobody can make them to released any vehicle.
That period was a bad time for me. I have to start calling people to assist me cos they demanded for 75k initially. They only collected 40k cos that was all I could generate.
I was asked to thank them else they change their mind.
It was just a bad experience.
They are the worst govt agent robbing people who pay tax in the state . Yet they tow vehicle unjustified. It’s so bad I even have videos of their operation right now on my phone.
My car was parked far from road, even very hard to notice it. These people just got there and tolled it away, later demanding huge amount of money from me. Without any receipt to prove the money is for the government. Can you please let out the number one can reach when we observer their wrong act. Thanks gov. Sanwo olu
mot are thief and their work together with robber boys meny innocent have lost their life true does people call mot in lagos state
I came from island to mainland as an ehailing driver with a rider inside my car, due to Google map inaccuracy in most of it’s directions, I pulled over with a pointer to asked a passerby my way the next thing I saw was a towing van in my front with one of their staffs entering my car straight to their office, it was with 30k I beg to bail my vehicle. Kudos to Gov sanwo olu with this sanctions
This is very good that they are sent out off the roads in Lagos. There are these thieves on Cele/mile 2 bus stop, I was about to clear off the road by the First Bank on Cele Bustop one day when they blocked me with a towing van, I was in my car then these thieves that called MOT task forced took me to there den in Okota. Their boss is called honorable and forced me to pay N30k my last saving. They have pos agents that collect for them. Thank God for his mercy, and The govt intervention.. Eko Oni baje o.
Those people called there self MOT are all thief’s can you believe that they come to my street at 2:00 in midnight and tow many car to oshodi at last man office and those cars are park at front of there house and you can’t believe that they have not release those car till now
This so-called Task force ripped off me 80k. It happened between Mushin and Oshodi axis. I was taken to their office at Isolo road and collected 80k via POS they also operate in that corridor. I wonder if the government is reading our comments on different ordeals.