Thirty-seven persons were today convicted by the Lagos State Special Offences Mobile Court for various traffic offences, including One-Way, Driving on BRT Lane, corridor and illegally plying of Highway with motorcycles which are likely to endanger the lives of road users.

The traffic offenders who were arrested by Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit, Task Force, were convicted for violating the State Transport Sector Law.

Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, Moyosore Onigbanjo who led the team of prosecutors, during the proceedings for written address urged the court presiding Magistrate Omobola Salawu to convict the defendants as charged, noting, the offence committed was punishable under section 66 (b) of Lagos State Transport Law, 2012.

Delivering her judgement, Presiding Magistrate Omobola Salawu said the offenders who were majorly okada riders should forfeit the okada to the state government after the defendants pleaded guilty to the traffic offence charged against them.

Salawu also pronounced days of community service and fines varying from the offence committed on the offenders as an additional punishment.

She ordered that they all drop two Passport photograph and pay the fines allotted into the Lagos State Mobile Court account.

Speaking to Newsmen, Onigbanjo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria said the prosecution was in line with the executive order of the present government and to send a clear signal that violations of laws would no longer be tolerated in the state.

He said government would continue to prosecute traffic offenders until sanity was restored back on Lagos roads and law-abiding citizens were allowed to enjoy the roads without being assaulted by defaulters.

According to him, many convictions had been handed out and vehicles of some of the offenders had been forfeited.

The Justice Commissioner said the Governor Babajide Sanwo Olu led administration had Zero Tolerance for disobedience to traffic rules, all traffic offenders would be made to serve the punishment immediately, which could be in form of compulsory community service or fines as appropriate”.

Also, Chairman Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit, Task Force, Olayinka Egbeyemi, said four thousand four hundred and seventy-seven motorcycles and eighteen Vehicles of traffic offenders had been impounded during the last six months.

Egbeyemi, a Chief Superintendent of Police said the agency would continue to apprehend offenders of the State traffic rules and regulations.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu earlier signed an executive order for the immediate prosecution of traffic offenders through the state-owned mobile courts.