OLORUNDARE ENIMOLA, Lagos
The Ijako Unit of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, TRACE, Ogun State, on Tuesday 26, organises its 'ember months' Road Safety Awareness Campaign in the Ijako/Ilogbo area of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, taking the campaign on a motorcade bearing public address systems to various garages, markets and manufacturing companies in that axis blaring cautionary messages to improve Safety on the roads in the Yuletide season.
The motorcade campaign which started at the Owode roadside garage proceeded to Iyana Ilogbo, where a large number of vehicles, especially trucks, lorries and commercial buses driving against traffic on the highway were turned back with stern warnings of apprehension of recalcitrant drivers afterwards.
In her address to the motoring public at Iyana-Ilogbo, Cdr. Aduroja Ariyo, Unit Commander, TRACE, Ijako Unit, "driving against traffic is a very serious offence and the leading cause of road crashes on this highway and it is discovered that despite our consistent advocacy against it, many of the drivers remain recalcitrant and incorrigible still driving against traffic.
"The regular complain you kept giving is the bad spot at the Iyana-Ilogbo junction, which TRACE in collaboration with other Companies under their CSR programme put resources to repair, making the bad spot motorable. It is therefore unacceptable for any driver to drive against traffic under the guise of avoiding the spot at Iyana-Ilogbo." She added.
She stressed that, Dr Ogunyemi has directed Divisional/Unit Commanding Officers to ensure the immediate commencement of Public Enlightenment and sensitization campaigns to commuters within the state for smooth traffic flow.
Cdr Aduroja, reaffirmed the Agency’s stand to continue having zero tolerance for excessive speed, overloading, recklessness, wrongful overtaking, drunk-driving, one-way drive, riding motorcycle without helmet, road obstructions either by traders or motorists, adding that the agency would intensify much on enforcement to ensure reduction of road crashes.
Cdr Adekunle Ajibade, while commending on the exercise said, "TRACE was established with the mandate of ensuring reduction of road traffic crashes in the state."
He pointed out that the TCC/CEO has introduced new strategies to stem the high volume of RTC and to erase the wrong perception that Ogun is the 'mortuary state', by the execution of rigorous sensitisation campaigns in motor Parks, religious homes, schools, markets, town halls, among others with full enforcement, stressing that the commanding officers had been directed to implement it with immediate effect.
CDR. Ajibade called on transport stakeholders to curb drivers’ excesses leading to road traffic crashes, RTC, adding that whoever is caught flouting traffic rules would be made to face the wrath of law.
The TRACE team later proceeded from Iyana-Ilogbo to Goro market where they forced many of the traders to evacuate their wares displayed on road shoulders which narrows it against smooth flow of traffic and throwing up the grave danger of vehicles running into them.
Afterwards the campaign was taken to Companies bestriding the Lagos-Abeokuta highway to warn and remove logistic trucks on double and haphazard parking, meetings were quickly arranged between the TRACE team, the logistic leaders and the Companies they are servicing to forestall illegal, double and haphazard parkings on the highway going forward.
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