The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, weekend, announced the barring of junior officers in its rank from arresting erring motor-cycle riders and motorists in the state.
The General Manager of LASTMA, Engr. Babatunde Edu, gave the order in his address at a public forum on the Law, organised by the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, at the weekend.
According to Edu, the move was a spontaneous measure to respond to the complaints against aggressive law enforcement by junior officers.
He urged the public to report and/or take the name of any junior officer who victimises or harasses them, saying they have been stripped of the power to arrest.
He said: “You can easily identify the junior officer with black epaulet on their shoulders; they cannot arrest, only the senior ones with red epaulets on their uniforms can arrest.
We have stopped the juniors from arresting motorists and okada riders except during a joint operation. That is the extent we have gone in checkmating aggressive enforcement of the law”
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