Police set to check men in uniform’s disobedience to restriction laws on motorcycle usage, abuse of BRT dedicated lanes

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abubakar Umar Manko, has said that the state Security Council had decided to set up a joint taskforce of all the security services, to go after men in uniform who flout restriction laws on use of motorcycles and those of them who abuse the dedicated lanes meant for the use of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) vehicles.

 He revealed this after the weekly State Security Council meeting chaired by Governor Babatunde Fashola at the Lagos House, Marina.

 “We are not very happy about that and that is why we are saying it clearly that we will go after (the men) ourselves and I think that is a warning to other people that would want to disobey these laws, that if we can go after our men they should be prepared for that too,” Manko warned further.

Also responding to a question on importation and storage of fireworks during the festivities, the Commissioner said fireworks are items of restricted use adding that there are laws guiding the importations and usage of such items.

“The Council today agreed that anybody who wants to import these items into the country must follow the rules, must follow the laws because the security agencies will not allow what happened last year to come up again. Therefore, we are going to go after the importers of these items to ensure that they comply with the rules, with the laws, for both importation and usage,”,he said.

Fashola, pls open up this part of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

 

I think the Lagos State Government should pull down the gate erected by Bi Courtney and allow the effective and efficient use of that road.

In 2009, Chief Wale Babalakin’s Bi Courtney Highway Services Limited was made the concessionaire of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Although they had not really done anything on the road, they informed motorists that they may collect between N100 and N200 as tolls after they might have finished their job there.

In additional, they fenced off a portion of the road at the Lagos end of the toll gate thus creating a bit of bottleneck while they were still contemplating on which equipment to import for their job.

Unfortunately, the Federal Government kicked them off the contract last year. They moved their equipment from the area but the gate is still there and that portion of the road is still not being used.

Could this be a coincidence?

On Monday, February 25, officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement),  Bayo Sulaiman, stormed Ladipo auto spare parts market in Mushin as early as 4a.m and shut it down.

The same Monday, members of the Igbo Council in Lagos State, led by its president general and leader, Professor Anya O Anya paid a courtesy visit cum new council members’ introduction to the Governor Babatunde Fashola at State House, Ikeja.

I am pretty sure that the Igbo leaders had an interesting discussion with the governor thus intelligence would have met with intelligence/smartness, if you know what I mean.

President General and Leader of the Igbo Council in Lagos State, Professor Anya O Anya discussing with Gov. Fashola during a meeting to present the new Council members to the Governor at the Lagos House, Ikeja, on Monday, February 25, 2013.



Gov. Fashola in a group photograph with the leader and and members of Igbo Council.