Abandoned Vehicles: LASG Sets Up 10-Member Ad-Hoc Committee

Lagos State Government has inaugurated a 10-member Ad-Hoc Committee to oversee the issue of vehicle abandonment on highways and major streets to further ease the free flow of traffic in the metropolis.

Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde who performed the inauguration charged them to see their appointments as a call to duty.

While urging them to be honest in the discharge of their duties, the Commissioner charged them to see their appointments as an opportunity to assist the State Government to address the issue of constant traffic gridlocks in the metropolitan Lagos.

He assured the Committee that the Ministry would further train them on how to do the job in the most civil way while advising that they should be guided by the regulations and their terms of reference, adding that government’s intention for inaugurating the Committee was to improve on traffic situation in the state and not to punish anyone.

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The Commissioner, while reeling out the Committee’s terms of reference took time to explain conditions upon which any vehicle could be declared and treated as an abandoned vehicle.

These include; vehicles which had been left unattended to or stationery for a period of time, any vehicle parked upon or within 10 feet of the travelled portion of the high ways; any vehicle parked in the frontage of a private property in excess of 7 days or in a public property for more than 30 days without being attended to.

Among their terms of reference which the Commissioner further stated are; identification of the abandoned vehicles where they were parked and subsequently, reporting such to the authority, recording the locations of the vehicles, street names, mode and make of the vehicles, vehicle particulars, including photographs and other convincing evidence about the vehicles and pasting of removal notifications on such vehicles.