LASTMA Threatens Clampdown On Motorists Plying One-Way On Airport Road
Motorists in Lagos have been warned by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) against plying one-way on the Murtala Mohammed International Airport road.
The LASTMA warned on Thursday that it won’t hesitate to henceforth clamp down on offenders caught flouting the State Traffic Law.
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Mr Olawale Musa, the LASTMA General Manager, said this during a joint enforcement carried out by the agency and the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) that the State Government had received countless reports on traffic offenders on that axis.
“As people are aware, there is ongoing expansion of the Airport Road and we have deployed our men strategically along the axis to ease traffic. Along the line, we saw that we are having this challenge of people passing one way from the Hajj Camp end and every time our men challenge them, they tell us Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) gave them the authority to pass one way. They even challenge us that this is a federal road and that state law does not apply,” Musa told members Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (MMIA chapter) and National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders.
“We believe that should not happen and we went there to see what is happening and we actually saw people plying one way but we are very sure that FAAN cannot tell anybody to flout the laws of the land.
“We will try and help them to solve the problem but we will not allow anybody to pass one way in the axis. The dangers in doing so are of greater proportion and the State Government cannot allow people to break the law with impunity.
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On his part, the RRS Commander, ACP Olatunji Disu, pledged that the police will support efforts being made by the LASTMA to sanitise the Airport road.
“We will not close our eyes to people flouting the laws of the land. I have the instruction of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Imohimi Edgal to assist LASTMA to ensure that we stop this and that is exactly what we have done today,” said ACP Disu.
