LASTMA charges youth to be good traffic ambassadors
The General Manager, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) Mr Bolaji Oreagba, has charged youths to be good traffic ambassadors while on the road.
He said that this was important to ensure orderliness and safety always.
Oreagba said this in a statement on Sunday by the Director of Public Affairs Department of LASTMA, Mr Adebayo Taofiq.
The general manager, according to the statement, gave the advice after a visit of pupils and students of Kole-Best International School, Oshodi.
They visited the Agency at Oshodi to mark their ‘Year 2022 Career Day Celebrations’.
The students, numbering over 80, were educated on various traffic signs which include prohibitory and warning signs that must be obeyed by motorists on the roads.
The General Manager who was represented by Mr Subair Bashir, Assistant Comptroller, Lagos East II, during the visit, according to the statement.
It said the students were enlightened on the negative impacts of traffic congestion on human life and the need to regularly ensure free flow of traffic on roads.
Oreagba told the students that traffic management and control were central to human activities.
According to him, traffic affects all aspects of human endeavour and pursuits as it determines travel time and arrival.
He urged students and other pedestrians not to walk on the road while backing traffic flow, avoid crossing in between two big vehicles, and to stop crossing at non- Zebra crossing designated areas.
The General Manager said that the Lagos State Schools Traffic Safety Advocacy Programme (LASTSAP) was carefully designed and a unique traffic education programme by the government for primary and secondary school students.
He said that LASTSAP was aimed at developing a better understanding of road traffic safety and reducing the impact of trauma on roads.
Oreagba explained that it was also aimed at protecting the future and ensuring sustainable development by catching them young.
He maintained that the youth segment was an essential key in the development of any nation.
The youth, according to him, have the potential and capability to make change happen for themselves, their communities and the rest of the world.
Earlier in her address, the Head of Administration of the School, Mrs Omobola Lateef, said that Career Day celebrations was an annual event where students were guided and carefully tutored on the career they had chosen to go into.
She said that inculcating traffic/road signs into students at a tender age would go a long way in reducing all man-made infractions and accidents on roads.
