EFFECTIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IS  KEY TO ECONOMIC GROWTH GLOBALLY – LASG

Lagos State Government has urged personnel of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) to take their jobs seriously, stressing that an effective traffic management system is the key to economic growth globally.

The Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Transportation Hon. Sola Giwa gave the charge during the ongoing retraining workshop for another Batch of 250 LASTMA Senior Officers on Incident Management at the Police Training School, Ikeja, Lagos.

Giwa disclosed that the two-day retraining workshop was in line with ‘Traffic Management and Transportation’ and is one of the cardinal programmes of Governor  Babajide Sanwo-Olu as captured in the administration’s THEMES Plus development agenda.

According to him, “The

workshop is not about stopping traffic, because there will always be traffic, but it is to prevent major incidents from happening so that the economy of Lagos and that of Nigeria at large would grow. The job of traffic management is very important because it contributes and improves the commerce of Lagos being a major driving force of the country’s economy”.

He further stressed that the Government mapped out these new retraining modules to aid the effective execution of duties as well as enlighten officers of the Agency on innovative ways to optimise their operations to meet international standards and best practices in traffic management. 

Earlier in his welcome address, the Ag. General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki thanked the Lagos State Government for providing the Agency with the opportunity to retrain both Junior and Senior Officers of the Agency. 

He confirmed that the  State Government, in collaboration with the Association of Certified Forensic Intelligence and LASTMA Crime Analysts, last week trained the first batch of 250 Senior Officers of the Agency. 

Bakare-Oki, however, appealed to LASTMA Senior Officers to participate fully in the workshop to be more professional when dealing with the motoring public across the State. 

A total of 500 Senior Officers of the Agency have been retrained in Incident Management by the Lagos State Government.