By Adeyinka Olumide
Twenty errant Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) officers are to face disciplinary actions for extortion and high handedness, LASTMA’s Deputy General Manager Comptroller Isaac Adetimiro said yesterday.
He said three of the affected officers whose cases have been investigated would be facing the disciplinary committee known as the Personnel Management Board, (PMB), which would adjudicate their cases in line with the Public Service Rules, adding that the remaining 17 officers accused of other misdemeanours are still under investigation.
“We will continue to be on the look-out for officers involved in any misdemeanor by increasing our monitoring and surveillance on officers at their duty posts to ensure they are civil to the populace as well as eschew corruption in the discharge of their duties”, Adetimiro stated.
He said the agency would continue to mete stiff and severe punishment on officials and men in its effort to weed the agency of bad elements tarnishing its image.
Speaking on several complaints received from the public, Adetimiro urged residents especially motoring public to report any errant officers of the Agency at the nearest LASTMA offices or any of the Agency’s complaints telephone numbers with proof of evidence saying that no guilty officer will go unpunished by the agency.
The DGM declared that the majority of LASTMA officers are diligent and upright in the discharge of their duties while the bad eggs tarnishing the image of the agency will be identified and punished.
The DGM also used the opportunity to implore all road users in the State to change their attitudes and obey traffic regulations at all times in order to avoid incessant traffic gridlock being experienced on across the metropolis.
Adetimiro, however, solicited for the support of all motorists and urged them to call any of the following numbers 08129928503, 08129928469, 08129928490 and 08129928550 for complaints and enquiries.