The new Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, Adetayo Akerele, has swung into action on the first day of assumption of duty as the Head of the Agency by sanitizing Oshodi and getting rid of vehicles parked indiscriminately along the road.
This exercise on Saturday morning, led to the seizure of over 92 vehicles parked indiscriminately along the highways and picking up passengers at undesignated bus stops, causing serious impediments to traffic flow and pedestrian movement.
In a statement made available to journalists by the agency Director of Press and Public Affairs, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, the chairman said, it was no longer business as always to park vehicles indiscriminately along expressways in the state.
Akerele decried how roadside traders displayed their goods on the kerb and walkways, warning them to move their business into the market complex which was designed for it.
The statement partly read, “This is no longer business as usual. Parking vehicles along the expressway which is meant to serve the entire populace is completely selfish and irresponsible. There is a new sheriff in town and I will make sure Lagosians are no longer shortchanged by commercial bus operators and selfish private vehicle owners.
“As we all know, this is the rainy season and there is every tendency for us to experience flooding which results from blocked drainage channels in the gutters and collectors. I urge you all to keep your environment clean and habitable and ensure that refuse from the markets is properly disposed of at the appropriate dumpsite.”
