LASTMA moves to curb crashes involving dispatch riders in Lagos

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, has intensified efforts to code the rising incidence of roadworthy crashes involving dispatch riders crossed large routes successful Lagos State.

Speaking successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria connected Monday, the agency’s General Manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, disclosed that caller measures are being implemented to heighten compliance with postulation regulations among riders.

He explained that the authorization has initiated engagement with unions representing dispatch riders arsenic portion of a wider information consciousness and enforcement strategy.

“There are plans to convene a stakeholders’ engagement with courier work operators and riders to beforehand strict adherence to information regulations.

“The engagement volition absorption connected encouraging riders to prioritise not lone the information of different roadworthy users, but besides their idiosyncratic wellbeing,” helium said.

Bakare-Oki reiterated that the Lagos State Government remains committed to safeguarding lives and spot done strengthened roadworthy information initiatives.

He noted that the planned forum would bring unneurotic rider unions, logistics companies, and different cardinal stakeholders to code recurring information challenges and reenforce compliance with postulation laws.

The LASTMA brag besides highlighted the agency’s schoolhouse outreach programme, aimed astatine promoting...