“I remember back then in 2016, a drunk driver drove on a one-way road while myself and my colleague were on a bike and this drunk person hit us and ran away, leaving my colleague dead after 3 days while I sustained a gruesome injury in my leg,” he said.
“My uncle died after almost 4yrs of total memory loss, he remembered nothing till his last day, he was knocked down by someone riding against traffic, if your vehicle is impounded for driving against traffic or you’re even jailed for life, zero sympathy!”He said he was once fined N25,000 for driving against traffic flow after he was misdirected by a LASTMA officer.
“Any law that empowers the government to confiscate and/ or auction the vehicle or other property of a citizen for an alleged offence , without a fair hearing and due process is unconstitutional and void,” the lawyer said.“The court of law will declare such a law inconsistent with the provisions of 36 and 43 of the Constitution which guarantees the rights of every person to fair hearing and ownership of property, respectively.
“Or should we assume that the orders authorizing the vehicles to be auctioned were made in civil proceedings, and not in criminal cases? The basis of the auction is that offences were committed. Where are the charge sheets? Those vehicles most likely had license plate numbers.”
Owners should be given the option of paying a fine.
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