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Our plan to overhaul LASTMA, by Olakpe

By Kingsley Jeremiah
29 January 2016   |   4:48 am
CHIEF Executive Officer of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Chris Olakpe, has said that the Lagos State Government is working on a more pragmatic, disciplined, intelligent and modern traffic agency to drastically reduce gridlock in the city. Olakpe disclosed to The Guardian in Lagos, that the state is considering a scientific approach and necessary…
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CHIEF Executive Officer of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Chris Olakpe, has said that the Lagos State Government is working on a more pragmatic, disciplined, intelligent and modern traffic agency to drastically reduce gridlock in the city.

Olakpe disclosed to The Guardian in Lagos, that the state is considering a scientific approach and necessary training that would give a face-lift to traffic management in the state.

The State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, had earlier disclosed that his administration would use its 2016 budget to promote massive investment, particularly in the areas of security, transport/traffic management as well as physical and social infrastructural development.

Olakpe stated that the new administration has noticed a training deficiency in LASTMA and has made adequate arrangement to ensure that the traffic officials become more intelligent, disciplined, pragmatic and purposeful.

“We are looking at e-ticketing and electro dynamism. We are also looking at close circuit TV installation so that you don’t need to see a LASTMA man. Now you will be captured by camera and e-tickets would be issued for offences”.

According to him, the administration will deploy scientific approach in its traffic management as well as procure more motorcycles that will help the agency to reach the nook and cranny of the roads,
stressing that LASTMA officials would not only manage traffic but provide security for motorists.

Olakpe said: “Once there are gridlocks, hoodlums take advantage and engage in crime and criminality. That is why we are more than ever before trying to reorient and redirect and re-engineer the average LASTMA man to be able to gather intelligent information and to network and collaborate with the police in not only traffic management but crime management which will not only monitor traffic but police the road.

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