Lagos: Gov. Sanwo-Olu turns traffic police, arrests defaulters

Gov. Sanwo Olu directing the arrest of defaulting motorcycles and cars

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday, turned himself to a traffic policeman when he alighted from his motorcade to arrest defaulting road users.

Some of the road users whose crimes caught up with them, were caught driving or riding on a one-way and against the flow of traffic.

Sanwo-Olu who took to his Twitter handle @JideSanwoolu (yet to be verified). said that is was not excusable for anyone to break traffic rules for their own selfish interest.

He wrote: “There’s no excuse for road users to break traffic rules by taking one-way and going against traffic.

“Today was an unlucky day for perpetrators of this selfish and disorderly act. Behaviour such as this will not be tolerated. Let’s not make total bedlam of our roads”.

Babajide Sanwo-Olu@jidesanwoolu

There’s no excuse for road users to break traffic rules by taking one-way and going against traffic.

Today was an unlucky day for perpetrators of this selfish and disorderly act.

Behaviour such as this will not be tolerated. Let’s not make total bedlam of our roads.

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Sanwo-Olu turns traffic Police
Sanwo-Olu turns traffic Police

The tweet by the governor however generated diverse reaction with some commending him while many urged him to fix Lagos roads.

Many of them held that the bad roads was a primary factor responsible for why people disobey traffic rules, adding that the gridlock in the state was causing many motorists and commuters serious stress.

Below are some of the comments embedded from twitter

Babajide Sanwo-Olu@jidesanwoolu

There’s no excuse for road users to break traffic rules by taking one-way and going against traffic.

Today was an unlucky day for perpetrators of this selfish and disorderly act.

Behaviour such as this will not be tolerated. Let’s not make total bedlam of our roads.

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Sylvia Ikeji@Sylvia_Ikeji

Fair enough but so who’ll “arrest” you and your govt for not fixing the multiple bad roads? He that comes to equity must come with clean hands.

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Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi@BOGbadamosi

Whilst not excusing bad driver behaviour WHERE ROADS ARE REASONABLY MOTORABLE, it must be said sir, that you as governor may be unfair to Lagosians by allowing our roads to deteriorate to these levels despite the huge taxes we suffer through them to pay YOUR Government.

Chukwuemeka Nwosu@emekanws

My governor we demand good and motorable roads. Once those are provided we would personally arrest users driving against traffic. On the other hand we need to ask why anyone would drive against traffic along MMA airport road.

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Chief Executive Plumber C.E.P@Eslawsirlerm

Fix the grid lock and the bad roads first, then you can arrest all traffic offenders.

DM@Deehelm

It’s still not an excuse to blatantly disregard the law. This behaviours stem into culture, even if the roads are fixed you will do the same. The road conditions are extremely terrible, I equally use them too but it’s no excuse to misbehave.. u cant try that nonsense elsewhere.

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Babajide Sanwo-Olu@jidesanwoolu

There’s no excuse for road users to break traffic rules by taking one-way and going against traffic.

Today was an unlucky day for perpetrators of this selfish and disorderly act.

Behaviour such as this will not be tolerated. Let’s not make total bedlam of our roads.

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Leo Dasilva@SirLeoBDasilva

The bikes that use One way on Eko bridge and in loads of places should be looked into as well. The maintenance of roads can reduce traffic. We need you to do more.

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Babajide Sanwo-Olu@jidesanwoolu

There’s no excuse for road users to break traffic rules by taking one-way and going against traffic.

Today was an unlucky day for perpetrators of this selfish and disorderly act.

Behaviour such as this will not be tolerated. Let’s not make total bedlam of our roads.

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Yinka.Akib@POSHMAMA1

Lagos Roads are very bad and they are being fixed every day. For those spewing rubbish on this street, did the roads just got this bad within the last 4 months. Bad roads is not an excuse to take one way. If everyone took one way, wouldn’t it be counter productive?

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