In a decisive and far-reaching intervention to reassert order, discipline, and structural coherence within the urban mobility architecture of Lagos State, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has commenced a comprehensive clean-up enforcement campaign across critical traffic corridors within the metropolis.
According to the LASTMA spokesman, Adebayo Tofiq, who is the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, “this expansive operation, meticulously coordinated under the leadership of Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, General Manager of LASTMA, commenced day with full deployment across high-density zones, notably Oyingbo, Iddo, Eja-Lonibu, Adeniji Adele, Sabo, Jibowu (Inter-State Terminal), and Oshodi—locales that have long contended with chronic congestion, indiscriminate parking, flagrant environmental violations, and general traffic anarchy.
“During the initial enforcement phase, no fewer than 235 vehicles—comprising 38 private automobiles,156 painted Volkswagen commercial buses (Danfo), 19 Minibuses (Korope)/tricycles, 5 haulage trucks, and 17 Inter-State passenger buses—were impounded for various breaches of the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law of 2018. Offences ranged from unlawful encroachment upon pedestrian pathways, obstruction of vehicular flow, establishment of illegal terminals, to reckless disregard for established traffic regulations.
“In one particularly egregious episode, five articulated trucks were intercepted atop the Adeniji Adele Bridge while illicitly offloading livestock—including rams, cows, and abattoir waste—thus constituting a grave environmental defilement and compromising both public safety and the structural integrity of the bridge. The drivers, in manifest contempt for sanitation laws, are now subject to imminent judicial proceedings.
“This sweeping enforcement is being executed at the directive of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Hon. Sola Giwa, who has persistently championed a strategic, coordinated response to the entrenched culture of indiscipline that continues to undermine the State’s transportation landscape”.
