Ignore federal task force, Babatunde Fashola tells Lagos motorists

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has urged motorists across their state never to regard officials of the federal task force who’ve been deployed in major roads in the state.  The governor said this even while officials of the job force and the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority clashed on Monday.  Fashola said the job force officials, that are area of the Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme of the Presidency, had no right to manage traffic on Lagos roads.

He therefore urged Lagosians to resist them.

He said,

“The SURE-P task force has no right to manage traffic on Lagos roads. The only agency authorised to manage traffic in Lagos on the federal roads are LASTMA and the Federal Road Safety Corps. Citizens should just resist them and refuse to cooperate with them.”.

He said,

“So you see how it has been improving our lives. The money should have been spent on roads; Apapa-Oshodi Expressway is one of them, that is where SURE-P money should have been invested not to dissipate it into political organisation in a very wanton desperation to win elections.

“This is the method that has been tried before, it was tried in 2006 and it did not produce any result. The result it produced was that they were roundly defeated. So, if you go into what does not work, we will not be provoked, we expect that in time, reasons will prevail.”