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Apapa gridlock: Lagos traffic team, NPA, identify six parks for truck holding bays
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By Olasunkanmi Akoni
The newly constituted Traffic Management Enforcement Team, by Lagos State Government, to resolve gridlock in Apapa, and the Nigerian Port Authority Security Team have identified seven holding bays for trucks at various locations around the metropolis for the purpose of decongesting Apapa and environs of gridlock.
The team made the discovery during their first inspection to Apapa to devise a strategy to solve the gridlock issue occasioned by loading trucks and trailers at the port, which have extended to major parts of Lagos.
Sanwo-Olu, IGP: Is Apapa traffic mayhem beyond solution?
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…We’re helpless, Police, FRSC, LASTMA lament
COMMUTERS were trapped for hours in the perennial gridlock along the Oshodi/Apapa Expressway, yesterday, as the Policemen, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, could not control the chaotic traffic situation on the axis.
From Jakande bus-stop, inward Apapa to Otto-Wharf, a journey that ought to take three minutes, took close to six hours.
Vanguard observed that the newly created exit point at Freedom bus-stop, in front of the Ports and Terminal Multi-purpose, was blocked, a situation that rendered policemen, FRSC personnel, and LASTMA officials helpless.
Restructuring what? State police
Wed Feb 03 2021
The idea of a ‘State Police’ in which each state will establish, keep and run its own police, independent of or in addition to the Nigeria Police is one of the major issues in the debate about restructuring Nigeria. But this also only illustrates the sort of romanticism of other societies associated with this whole ‘restructuring’ debate.
If we define ‘state police’ loosely as any law enforcement agency established by a state government and which performs policing functions within the jurisdiction of that state, then, we will probably have the conceptual clarity we need. The key criteria for state police are that the agency is established, operated and paid for by a state government, that the said agency performs law enforcement functions, and that its activities be limited to that state alone.
He said that members of the team included
Toyin Fayinka (Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation); and
Olajide Oduyoye (General Manager, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA).
According to him, the team also includes
Sola Giwa (Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to the Governor on Central Business Districts); and
Ayodeji Laurent (SSA to the Governor on Political Security Intelligence).
“The Special Traffic Management and Enforcement Compliance Team is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring a seamless traffic management system specifically designed to restore sanity in and around Apapa.
“They are to create a cohesive system that would aid the resurgence of business activities and ensure that residents live in a conducive environment devoid of traffic-induced stress, he said.
Ejiofor Alike
In line with the COVID-19 Health Protection Regulations, 2021 signed last week by President Muhammadu Buhari, Lagos State Governor, Mr, Babjide Sanwo-Olu has made it mandatory for residents to wear face masks or face six months jail term.
This came on a day Sanwo-Olu announced the approval of N200 million to support the ongoing COVID-19 patient management and treatment efforts of two federal government Treatment Centres in the state.
The governor stated this yesterday while addressing State House Correspondents on COVID-19 update in the state at Lagos House, Marina.
This is coming as the governor has approved the constitution of a Special Traffic Management and Enforcement Compliance Team to resolve the traffic gridlock in and around Apapa.