Traffic Infractions: Are Laws Punitive Or Corrective?

 By Taofiq Adebayo

If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault    – Norm Macdonald (1959-2021), Canadian stand-up Comedian, Actor and Writer 

Laws are generally made to regulate human behaviors as relate different aspects of our lives. Established laws help ensure fairness, balance, equity, parity and sanity in a society. Human excesses are checked through the enactment of laws as they serve as guidance and standard for acceptable behavior. 

A society without law would encourage disorderliness and abuses by other people. Abuse and misuse of power are inevitable in a setting where there are no laws.  Where there is no law, they say, there is no sin. Offences are bound to occur when laws are enacted. Committing an offence then means the individual has disobeyed the law. 

Can Lagos Be Free From Traffic Challenges?

By Kayode Ojewale

Some Lagosians ignorantly see public facilities as state properties belonging to people in government only; as such they fail to take care of these public facilities. Put simply, public facilities are facilities provided by the government for the benefit of the general public. These facilities include, but not limited to roads, street lights, public buildings, crude oil pipelines and recreational areas. Public facilities, in reality, belong to the people and the people are expected to take ownership of and responsibility for them.

This ought to be so because public facilities are made available and funded with the tax payers’ money. The wrong mindset that public properties belong to the government makes some people vandalise them. It is same reason people steal and sell off public properties. By so doing, they believe they are punishing and hurting the people in government alone through these acts of vandalism, whereas and of a truth, they are indirectly hurting themselves by destroying amenities which make life easier for all.