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Traffic offenders apprehended by Oyo State Road Traffic Management Agency (OYRTMA) are now face mobile court trial, Akin Fagbemi, chairman of the agency has disclosed.
The mobile court will start sitting on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 (today).
Fagbemi, disclosed when this when the Chief Magistrate of Oyo State Mobile Court, Moruff Mudashiru visited him in Ibadan. Fagbemi charged the court to ensure fair and speedy trial of offenders to minimise what he called the culture of indiscipline by some road users in the state.
He expressed the readiness of the agency to work closely with the judiciary to bring the nuisance of unnecessary traffic violation to a halt as his men have been trained to be civil in their approach to motorists while they were on the road.
The OYRTMA chairman maintained that motorists whose vehicles were confiscated or impounded by the officers of the agency would be made to face the mobile court.
“We are ready to work with the mobile court to bring to barest minimum, the culture of road indiscipline by some road users who will not respect the rights of others on the road by parking indiscriminately, driving against the traffic flow among other offences.
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“By Wednesday, the court will start trying offenders and we will give the mobile court the best of our support to make their job easier and prompt to ensure sanity is returned to our roads,” Fagbemi said.
He solicited for the commitment of the court in speedy adjudication of all cases in line with global best practices and dictate of the traffic laws of Oyo State so as to promote development.
The chief magistrate, Moruff Mudashiru expressed satisfaction with the operational and administrative changes at the agency since the appointment of Fagbemi as its executive chairman.
He further affirmed that sanity would be returned to the highways and major roads across the state as all traffic offenders would be tried fairly without recourse to social status, creed, gender, religion or political affiliations.
