LASG promises to employ more officers into LASTMA
The Lagos State Government said on
Sunday that it would soon recruit more
men and women into the State Traffic
Management Authority (LASTMA) in a
bid to improve the traffic situation in
the state.
Mr Olanrewaju Elegushi, the Special
Adviser on Transportation, announced
this while speaking with newsmen in
Lagos.
According to him, LASTMA has 2,300
personnel who are currently manning
over 9,000 roads in the state.
We are working on that and very soon,
we will boost the workforce and you will
see more reliable LASTMA officials on
our roads,’’ Elegushi said.
Elegushi promised that the state
government would also improve the
working conditions of personnel of the
agency.
Also speaking, the Commissioner for
Transportation, Dr Dayo Mobereola, said
the government would ensure that
transportation in general would be safe,
reliable, accessible and comfortable for
the residents.
When you have reliable and efficient
buses, you will find out that people will
prefer to use them rather than the
yellow and black commercial vehicles,
the danfos and molues,’’ he said.
He said the plan was not to make the
commercial bus operators jobless, but to
incorporate them into the system
through good training and technical
know-how.
The commissioner said that the
government was ready to make Lagos an
efficient city that was liveable with good
mobility.
That is our primary aim and to do this,
we have to develop public transportation
system very well.
We need to develop water transportation
routes, mass transportation system with
good buses and efficient rail system.
All of them complementing each other
will make a liveable city.
So, it is all of these things that are going
to change and we strongly believe we
can get to that point,’’ Mobereola said.
On the activities of touts on roads across
the state, Mobereola said that the
government would come up with a
mechanism to eradicate the growing
menace.
The first thing we do not want is touts or
union members collecting dues on the
roads; it is a violation of the laws of the
state,’’ he said. (NAN)
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