The Lagos State Site visitors Administration Authority (LASTMA) has delivered a categorical and uncompromising warning to residents, neighborhood custodians, non secular our bodies, occasion conveners and organisers of various socio-cultural actions towards the indiscriminate obstruction of entry roads earlier than, throughout and after occasions slated for the quickly approaching festive season throughout the State.
The Company lamented the persistent and worrisome tendency of celebrants, worship centres, occasion planners, road revellers and related teams to annex essential highway corridors, thereby disrupting unhindered site visitors circulation and subjecting law-abiding motorists to pointless gridlocks, security dangers and extreme inconvenience.
In a press release by the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Division of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, mentioned LASTMA pressured that every one roadways, whether or not trunk routes or interior streets, represent public belongings and should not, beneath any circumstance, be commandeered for personal festivities or non secular congregations.
Equally, proprietors of occasion centres, lounges, golf equipment and allied leisure institutions, particularly these working inside high-traffic precincts reminiscent of Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lekki, Shongotedo and contiguous environs, have been unequivocally instructed to offer enough, well-coordinated parking preparations for his or her clientele. Services whose patrons habitually spill automobiles onto main thoroughfares stand liable to rigorous enforcement measures, heavy sanctions and potential closure as mandated by extant site visitors statutes.
Common Supervisor, LASTMA, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, issued this warning over the weekend whereas on an inspection tour accompanied by the highest administration crew of the Company to all main traffic-prone corridors throughout the State.
Bakare-Oki reaffirmed LASTMA’s unwavering resolve to safeguard the free motion of automobiles, individuals, items and providers all through the festive interval, a season historically marked by heightened celebrations and elevated vehicular density.
He disclosed that LASTMA officers will intensify surveillance, upscale operational visibility, and deploy proactive site visitors administration methods to forestall avoidable obstructions, curb unlawful parking and suppress all types of site visitors infractions.
The Common Supervisor appealed to residents and occasion organisers to conduct their affairs responsibly by securing requisite approvals, instituting correct logistical preparations and lengthening full cooperation to LASTMA operatives and different related authorities businesses to ensure a protected, orderly and congestion-free celebratory season for all commuters.
He reiterated that the Company won’t hesitate to invoke the complete drive of the regulation towards any particular person, organisation or institution that violates site visitors rules or compromises the collective proper of Lagosians to unobstructed mobility.
Bakare-Oki moreover disclosed that LASTMA has fortified its operational structure to make sure speedy response to emergencies, site visitors incidents and the swift clearance of broken-down automobiles throughout each hall of the State.
He restated that the Company’s toll-free hotline, 080000527862, stays absolutely operational and readily accessible to members of the general public, notably motorists in want of pressing highway site visitors help.
