Vehicle Inspection Officer on duty
The Chief Vehicle Inspection Officer of the Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS), Akin-George Fashola, on Monday, vowed to go after commercial yellow-branded buses in the state popularly known as ‘Danfo’ and ‘Korope’ violating provisions of the Road Traffic Law 2021.
Fashola said that private citizens also have bad cars on the roads, noting that the Service has deployed enough technology to deal with errant private owners.
The Vehicle Inspection Officer made this known while having a chat with newsmen on Monday in Lagos, stressing that; “I’m at a level where I’m comfortable with the technology the state has developed and put on the roads to take care of private citizens. You will hardly see Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Officers disturbing private citizens on roads.
“In 2024, we are facing commercial entities because there are just so many of them. It’s high we changed our focus, and our approach to get those numbers down to a level.
Fashola further answered questions on if the Service was empowered by law to arrest one-way drivers, stressing that as a law enforcement agency, the Service takes assignments that are priority traffic violation offences like arresting one-way defaulters. “It is not a primary focus for us but it’s an addition,” he stated.
