The Lagos State Traffic
Management Authority (LASTMA) officials have been directed to go for booking of
offenders, instead of impounding their vehicles.
Ministry of
Transportation Permanent Secretary, Mr. Oluseyi Whenu told LASTMA top officials
yesterday that emphasis should, henceforth, be on flawless flow of traffic
adding that it is the minimum they owe the people of the state.
He said, that LASTMA
should synergize with other security agencies to ensure enforcement of Lagos
Road Traffic Law 2012 directing LASTMA officials to consider alternative
traffic management methods rather than arrest of offenders and seizure of their
vehicles.
Whenu said a more
perfect traffic management and documentation regime is coming under which
offenders would be booked and given time to pay, defaulters, he added, would be
apprehended at home through the information on the motor vehicle database.
However, the Permanent
Secretary implored Lagosians to reciprocate government’s efforts by obeying
traffic rules and also calling on motorists whose vehicles were apprehended to
visit LASTMA depots to recover their vehicles after documentation.
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