Oyo Establishes Rule of Law Enforcement Authority

 

The Oyo State governor said there would be mobile courts all over the state to prosecute breakers of any of the laws at any hour of the day, be it midnight or 1.00 a.m.

 

Justifying the establishment of the agency further, Gov Makinde said: “We have been here for over four years and we have seen that we do have adequate laws to deal with the aspect of protecting the environment, traffic laws, and road transport management authority.

 

“We also signed the anti-open grazing law but some of these we have not been able to enforce, maybe, because we have not had full cooperation from the law enforcement agencies.

 

“But we have to keep striving for the kind of state that we are all comfortable with and we have been dreaming about.

 

“So, this is the basis for sending the executive bill to the state assembly.

 

“I have had to deal with people driving against traffic, leading to accidents causing maiming, even death. We have had several instances of deaths.

 

“We have had to deal with street trading. People have also turned the median of our roads to dump sites.

 

“We have been saying these things must stop and in reality, they must stop. So, what this law is going to do is to allow quick dispensation of justice for the law breakers.

 

“That is why with the signing of this law, we will put everything in place to give a bite to the people that will run this authority,” he said.

 

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