- Any driver caught would serve as deterrence
Published By Olanrewaju Adesanya
The Director of Operations, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Mr Peter Gbejemege, has disclosed that the authority intercepted 70 various types of vehicles for violating traffic laws.
Gbejemege who led the LASTMA team to monitor the two-day enforcement operations made the disclosure after the operations on Thursday.
“Our jobs is to ensure there is free flow of traffic within Lagos and we have zero tolerance for BRT violator,” he said.
Gbejemege urged the motorists and the commercial vehicles operators to stop plying BRT corridor warning drivers not to stop at unauthorised bus-stops.
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Also speaking, the Controller, Traffic Management, LASTMA, Mr Ayo Osintimehin, described the operation as an enforcement to checkmate drivers compliance to stop driving on BRT corridors within Lagos Metropolis and put an end to indiscriminate parking or waiting of vehicles on the highways.
Osintimehin said that only BRT buses were authorised to ply the BRT routes.
“We arrested some vehicles parked at the bus-stops because bus-stations are meant to pick and drop passengers and not a bus park.
“Any private vehicles parked at the bus stop would be arrested because that is obstructions.
“We also arrested some commercial vehicles parked on the highways waiting to onboard or discharge passengers,” he said.
He advised commercial drivers to be law abiding, adding that the present government had zero tolerance for traffic obstruction.
While ensuring Lagos was traffic free, the Head of operations, LASTMA Healthcare, Mr Oluyemi Adeoye, said that the operation was basically meant to bring sanity on BRT corridors.
“Although when the commercial transporters observed their appearance that they will pretend to comply and as soon as the operation ended, commercial operators would go back to indiscriminate obstructions on the highways.
“We will continue on our operation in ensuring that Lagos is traffic-free and any violator will serve as deterrent to others,” he said.