Video: "If You Don't Change Your Attitude, The People Will Turn On Us" - LASTMA Boss Warns Officers

The menace these officers in uniform constitute on Lagos roads, cannot be overemphasized. They take advantage of their uniforms to extort motorists, all in the name of being Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officers, they turn themselves into demigods over the people and using the uniform given them to commit all manner of despicable things against the people. Just as we have witnessed the turn the end SARS protests has taken, so also is what is happening to LASTMA.


The primarily job of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), is to control traffic in Lagos, they serve as a support to the traffic warden a unit of the Nigeria Police Force, that helps with traffic management on the Nigerian roads but instead of doing that, they allow you commit the crime and surface from their hide outs, to ticket you for a crime they were supposed to correct you for, at other times, they enter motorists vehicles and began negotiating how much the motorists should give them as bribe.

In a trending video on Wednesday October 28,2020, the LASTMA Boss Mr. Olajide Oduyoye

Took to the social media to warn its men sternly for their continuous extortion and harassment of motorists on Lagos roads, ticketing motorists without full evidence of the crime they have committed. He says that if they refused to change their ways, the motorists will turn against them and going forward anyone who is caught will face the full weight of the law.



This warning came after their office was set ablaze by angry hoodlums who took over the end SARS protests, as a sign that they're tired of the way the LASTMA officers have been working on the Nigerian roads.

Lagos State Traffic Management Authority is a Lagos State-owned agency under the Ministry of Transportation. The agency was established on the 15th of July, 2000 to transform the state transportation system to ensure free flow of traffic in the state and also reduce road accidents.

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