Lagos warns transport unions against use of stickers as registration numbers

…Orders Reflective Jackets for Night Courier Deliveries

…Glovo to Distribute 3,000 Free Vests to Riders

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

The Lagos State Government has ordered transport unions and affiliated associations to instantly desist from the amerciable signifier of affixing “union stickers” connected backstage vehicles successful spot of valid registration numbers, informing that defaulters’ vehicles volition beryllium impounded.

In a related directive aimed astatine enhancing roadworthy safety, the authorities has mandated the compulsory usage of reflective jackets and visibility tapes by each courier and transportation riders operating betwixt 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. successful the state.

Speaking connected behalf of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Mr. Olawale Musa, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor connected Transport Education and Innovation, Mr. Oluwatobi Idowu, said the caller information measurement volition trim the risks of accidents involving dispatch riders. He added that each transportation motorcycles and bicycles indispensable besides beryllium fitted with reflective tapes oregon markers for visibility.

Musa urged courier companies to sensitize their riders and guarantee compliance, informing that enforcement agencies including the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) and the Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) would enforce sanctions connected violators.

As portion of compliance efforts, Glovo Nigeria announced that it volition administer 3,000 reflective vests escaped of complaint to its riders wrong the adjacent month. In a connection signed by its General Manager, Mr. Lamide Akinola, the institution commended the initiative, describing it arsenic a captious measurement towards protecting some riders and different roadworthy users.

Crackdown connected Union Stickers

Meanwhile, the General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, condemned the usage of national stickers arsenic substitutes for due registration numbers, describing the enactment arsenic a superior information hazard and usurpation of authorities laws.

He emphasized that each conveyance operating connected Lagos roads indispensable beryllium duly registered done government-approved agencies, noting that unauthorized identifiers undermine instrumentality enforcement and nationalist safety.

“Any conveyance discovered navigating the roadways nether the guise of ‘union sticker’ identifiers, oregon different unauthorized symbols, shall beryllium summarily impounded, and the culpable parties shall look afloat sanctions nether the law,” Bakare-Oki warned.

He added that LASTMA, moving with information formations and different enforcement agencies, volition intensify surveillance crossed the authorities to guarantee compliance, stressing that adherence to registration protocols is some a ineligible work and a safeguard for corporate security.

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