Yuletide: LASTMA begins 24/7 operations Thursday

The Special Adviser to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu connected Transportation, Mr Sola Giwa, says the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) volition supply 24/7 enactment connected large corridors during the Ember months.

Giwa disclosed this astatine the LASTMA Ember Months Stakeholders Forum held connected Tuesday successful Lagos.

The forum had the taxable “Safer Roads, Safe Lives…” LASTMA Cares.

Giwa noted that the Night Rapid Response Gang of LASTMA was inaugurated with the task of responding swiftly to breakdowns, crashes, and obstructions, ensuring minimal disruption to postulation flow.

“We person made provisions that from Oct. 23, LASTMA volition beryllium doing 24-hour postulation operations for each our roads, particularly those areas that volition person a precocious flux of radical owed to end-of-year traffic.

“This is not the archetypal clip we are doing this; we did it past twelvemonth successful December, but this year, arsenic a proactive government, we are starting aboriginal successful October to tally till January,” helium said.

He said for the 2025 Ember months, LASTMA would follow different multi-layered operational plans to guarantee harmless mobility crossed each 5 divisions crossed Lagos.

Giwa expressed plans to see advocacy and nationalist sensitisation, input enforcement which had to bash with compliance enforcement, e-enforcement, enhanced tract deployment, and inter-agency collaboration.

He said the flag-off of different Ember Month run reaffirmed the shared committedness to a safer, saner, and smarter Lagos.

“Every nonmigratory deserves a metropolis wherever question is safe, predictable, and efficient,” helium said.

Giwa said information showed that by managing congestion and preventing gridlock, a azygous LASTMA serviceman helped to prevention an mean of ₦85 cardinal successful man-hour losses annually.

“When multiplied by our full strength, this translates to implicit ₦430 cardinal successful economical worth each year, a publication that straight supports Lagos’ Gross Domestic Product of astir ₦41 trillion and sustains productivity crossed commerce, logistics, and mobility.

“Our officers are not conscionable postulation managers; they are economical stabilisers, frontline ambassadors of order, and protectors of quality lives,” helium said.

Also speaking, the General Manager of LASTMA, Mr Olalekan Bakare-Oki, said the authorization was good prepared for the 24-hour operations.

“It is not a caller happening for us; we did it past year, but we privation to commencement successful October. We should beryllium capable to bash the needful due to the fact that each arrangements are successful place.

“We person deployed capable unit and our betterment vehicles to guarantee we respond to immoderate exigency connected the road,” helium said.

Bakare-Oki said they would besides embark connected advocacy programmes and are disposable connected each societal media handles to sensitise Lagos residents.

“Today, we saw children from some authorities and backstage schools show for us.

“This is simply a bully mechanics to scope retired to their parents, and this volition arsenic hole them for the aboriginal for them to respect postulation rules and regulations,” helium said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that stakeholders contiguous astatine the forum see the Nigerian Army, the police, the Federal Road Safety Corps, the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, the National Union of Road Transport Workers, schoolchildren and others.

The lawsuit besides witnessed a play presumption by secondary schoolchildren from Lagos State Educational District. (NAN)(

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