Desist from BRT LANE - Lagos SG

Lagos State Government has  advised security personnel to comply with the state traffic law and desist from plying the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor at the Ikorodu road axis.

The General  Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Mr. Bashir Braimah gave the warning on the backdrop of a joint enforcement against BRT violation carried out by the military police and the police yesterday.

Addressing journalists, Braimah decried  the rate at which military personnel flout the BRT law with impunity, noting that the 15 vehicles caught plying the BRT corridor during the exercise were either driven by the military or with military paraphernalia hanging on them.

He wondered why military personnel, who should be the custodian of the traffic law were working against it.
Braimah  reminded them that the law is no respecter of persons, stressing that the road traffic law must be obeyed to ensure safety of lives and property.

He said some military personnel  threw caution and decency to the wind when they descended heavily on a LASTMA official, Peter Owolabi, for daring to take the photographs of their black Honda Accord car with registration number CP 839 YAB which violated the BRT corridor at Obanikoro Bus Stop on Ikorodu Road.

“It’s worthy to note that LASTMA officials are only empowered by the law to ensure orderliness, sanity and safety to Lagos roads”.

“The attack was a clear case of what LASTMA personnel usually go through in the hands of some uniform personnel at a time that the state government is making effort to restore orderliness on state roads. It has become a habit for some of the military personnel driving commercial buses in uniform to flout the state traffic law and collaborate or encourage commercial drivers to violate traffic law on Lagos roads”, Braimah said.