… More than 3,000 LASTMA operatives have been meticulously trained and retrained within the last eight months.
The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has once again illuminated his visionary statesmanship and unflagging fidelity to the recalibration of Lagos’ transportation matrix by approving an intensive retraining initiative, deliberately conceived for the senior command echelon of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA).
The 5-Day executive leadership and capacity-development convocation, inaugurated today at Oshodi, encompasses the entire cohort of fifty (50) zonal heads of the Authority, culminating in eighty-two (82) principal officers. This latest edict is a logical continuum of the Governor’s earlier directive at the threshold of the year 2025, which facilitated the retraining of over three thousand (3,000) frontline personnel across the Agency.
By endowing LASTMA’s strategic hierarchy with enhanced managerial sophistication and broadened intellectual armoury, Governor Sanwo-Olu’s administration aspires to engender an agile, adaptive, and globally consonant traffic governance architecture capable of mastering the ceaseless complexities and protean demands of Lagos’ metropolitan arteries.
This gubernatorial imprimatur epitomises the Governor’s cognizance of the irreplaceable salience of the Agency’s leadership stratum, the very fulcrum upon which operational efficiency and disciplinary cohesion of field officers pivot. The retraining enterprise, therefore, is purposed to inculcate doctrines of ethical stewardship, strategic foresight, evidence-based decision-making, and sustainable urban mobility management thus fortifying LASTMA’s institutional resilience against the vicissitudes of Lagos’ dynamic traffic realities.
Declaring the programme open, the General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, extolled the Governor’s perspicacious intervention, portraying it as a deliberate and inestimable investment in the intellectual and professional capital of the Authority. He averred that the exercise would serve as a catalytic crucible for professional refinement, operational concord, and an augmented reservoir of public confidence in the Agency’s statutory mandate.
According to Mr. Bakare-Oki, “The training modules encompass Job Description and Performance Management, Effective Leadership in Organisational Development, Incident Management and Conflict Resolution with Emotional Intelligence, Effective Communication and Presentation Skills, Stress and Health Management, as well as Ethical Standards and Discipline.”
Earlier in his remarks, the Director of Training and Human Capacity Development of LASTMA, Mr. Akinpelu Ayuba, lauded the Governor’s indefatigable devotion to unlocking the latent potential embedded within the Agency’s human resources. He asserted that perpetual training and retraining constitute the quintessence of institutional vitality and inevitably contribute to heightened efficiency in service delivery to the motoring citizenry.
Mr. Ayuba further enjoined Lagos motorists to consistently adhere to extant traffic regulations and to demonstrate civility, decorum, and reciprocal respect in their engagements with traffic officers. He underscored that the cultivation of constructive attitudinal comportment is indispensable to the consolidation of a safe, orderly, and progressive motoring environment across the State.
For prompt intervention during emergencies, road mishaps, or traffic-related emergencies, the motoring public is urged to avail themselves of LASTMA’s multilingual toll-free hotline: 080000527862, accessible in Yoruba, English, and Pidgin.
Adebayo Taofiq
Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA