The Lagos State government has
concluded a one-week training for about 500 officers of the Lagos State Traffic
Management Authority, LASTMA, and other traffic managers, aimed at equipping
them with necessary knowledge and skills to manage traffic with high technology
equipment.
Commissioner for Transportation,
Mr. Kayode Opeifa, made this known while addressing the personnel at the end of
the training held in Alausa.
He said the training would help
the officers to utilise the high technology equipment which would soon be
acquired by the state government.
According to Opeifa, “the state
government has concluded plans to acquire high technology traffic software to
move traffic and transport management from the present analogue to a more
sophisticated and scientific mode.”
The commissioner expressed the
hope that participants would at the end of the training, master the
fundamentals of the various areas of hi-tech traffic and incidence management
and other strategic related areas.
Earlier in his goodwill message,
the state Head of Service, Mr. Adesegun Ogunlewe said that the workshop would
provide a veritable platform for professionals to learn about best practices in
conformity with global standards in some areas of core competence in traffic
and traffic engineering.
Ogunlewe described the training
as a step in the right direction as the government could now boast of informed
professionals and institutions that would consistently seek to improve the
process of service delivery, while not compromising standard and compliance.
Declaring the workshop open, the
Commissioner for Establishment, Training and Pensions, Mrs. Florence Oguntuase,
asked public servants to understand the key policy thrust of the state
government to enable them situate the relevance and importance of their
services.
She therefore, charged the
participants to absorb all the knowledge they can and subsequently put them to
good use at their various duty posts to justify the investment of the
government in improving their competences and capabilities.
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