Lagos Taskforce Partners NURTW On Enforcement of Lagos Traffic laws
The operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce), has in a press release signed by its Director of Public Affairs, Taofeeq Adebayo, said, that the agency is set to collaborate with the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Lagos State Branch, in enforcing the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law 2018 as amended.
The release stated that the Chairman of the Agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, disclosed this when he received the executive members of the NURTW (Lagos Branch), led by its Chairman, Alhaji Musiliu Oluomo (a.k.a MC), on a courtesy visit to the Agency.
CSP Jejeloye stated further that it is pertinent for the Union to educate its members using different Nigerian dialects on the need to comply with the State Traffic Regulations, stressing that the operatives would not tolerate excesses of commercial bus drivers whose illegal activities are the major causes of traffic gridlocks, exhibited in the loading and off-loading of passengers at undesignated bus stops across the State.
He said: “We must all work together to checkmate recalcitrant commercial bus drivers, causing unnecessary obstructions on Lagos roads, as well as those driving on BRT corridors and those driving against traffic (one-way) in flagrant disobedience to the Lagos Traffic Law”.
The Chairman averred that the Government would not condone the killing of innocent members of the public by commercial bus drivers trying to evade arrest from law enforcement officers after contravening stipulated rules and regulations on the roads.
He urged the delegation to support the government in screening out criminally-minded drivers, especially those who use their commercial vehicles to rob innocent members of the public, in what popularly referred to as ‘One- Chance’.
While imploring the team to compel their members to always make use of garages provided by the government and desist from using illegal bus-stops, roadsides and drainage alignments as loading points across the State, stating that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has directed that any arrested traffic offenders would be charged to court and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Source: daily Independent
