The Lagos State Government has urged personnel of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority to take their job 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, Sola Giwa, gave this charge on Wednesday.
He spoke during the ongoing re-training workshop for another Batch of 250 LASTMA Senior Officers on Incident Management at the Police Training School, Ikeja, Lagos.
Giwa disclosed that the re-training two-day workshop was in line with “Traffic Management and Transportation” as one of the cardinal programmes of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as captured in the administration’s (Themes+) pillars of development in the State.
He said: “The re-training 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, as Lagos is the major driving force of the Country’s economy.”
Hon. Giwa stressed that the government mapped out these new re-training modules to aid effective execution of duties as well as enlighten officers of the Agency on new innovative ways to optimise their operations in order to meet up with international standards and best practices in traffic management.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Acting General Manager of LASTMA, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, thanked the Lagos State Government for providing this great retraining opportunity to both Junior and Senior Officers of the Agency.
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Bakare-Oki confirmed the Lagos State Government last week in collaboration with the Association of Certified Forensic Intelligence and LASTMA Crime Analysts trained the first batch of 250 Senior Officers of the Agency.
He however appealed to LASTMA Senior Officers to take the retraining workshop seriously and be more professional when dealing with motoring public across the State.
A total of 500 Senior Officers of the Agency has been retrained on Incident Management by the Lagos State Government.
