The General Manager, Lagos State Traffic Management
Authority, Bolaji Oreagba, has said the viral video showing officers of the
agency driving against the traffic is an old video.
In the viral video which surfaced on Friday, a man blocked
the agency’s officers for driving against the traffic around the Oworonshoki
Bridge area of the state.
Reacting to the development, Oreagba, in a statement by the
agency’s spokesperson, Taofik Adebayo, on Saturday said the incident happened
in 2020 around Iyana Ipaja before the #EndSARS protest.
He noted that all the officers involved in the incident had
been sanctioned.
The statement read, “The attention of Lagos State Traffic
Management Authority has been drawn to a viral video on Twitter
(@OmoGbajaBiamila) where our officers who drove against traffic (one-way) with
an operational vehicle , RTM 08 LA Zone 25 Bariga, was blocked by a private
vehicle on Oworonsoki Bridge, Lagos.
“The agency hereby
states categorically that the video incident occurred in year 2020 before the
#ENDSARS protest around Iyana-Oworo. All officers involved have been
appropriately sanctioned by the authority.
“The patrol van with number plate RTM 08 LA, Zone 25 Bariga,
seen in the viral video was among LASTMA operational vehicles burnt alongside
our office building by #EndSARa protesters at Iyana-Oworo, Lagos.
“The agency, therefore, urges members of the public to
disregard the video that was deployed to embarrass our team of hardworking
officers.
“LASTMA will continue effective monitoring and control of
traffic across the state, just as it will not condone indiscipline among any of
its personnel.”
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Command spokesman, Benjamin
Hundeyin, on Saturday stated that the officials involved in the video has been
summoned.
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