LASTMA to launch short code for traffic reporting in Lagos

Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, has announced plans to motorboat a dedicated abbreviated codification strategy that volition let residents, peculiarly motorists, to easy study roadworthy incidents and stock real-time postulation information.

The General Manager of LASTMA, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, disclosed this during an interrogation connected Monday, noting that the inaugural is designed to amended accessibility and connection betwixt the bureau and the public.

He explained that the existent long-digit interaction enactment would soon beryllium replaced with a simpler, toll-free abbreviated codification to heighten idiosyncratic convenience.

“The bureau is moving connected ensuring that we get a abbreviated codification alternatively of the agelong digit that is presently running,” helium said.

According to him, the strategy is expected to spell unrecorded wrong the adjacent 2 to 3 weeks, pending last support from telecom work providers.

“In the adjacent 2 to 3 weeks, our telephone centre volition travel up with a abbreviated codification that volition beryllium free. We person completed each indispensable arrangements and are lone awaiting last support from the web provider,” helium added.

Bakare-Oki noted that installation of supporting infrastructure and instrumentality is already ongoing to guarantee creaseless deployment erstwhile support is granted.

He said the level volition alteration Lagos residents to study a wide scope of issues, includ...