LAGOS got yesterday a major support for its new
traffic law. The National Union of Road Transport Workers
pledged to cooperate with the government to ensure full implementation
of the law, which has been controversial. It punishes eating and telephone
calls while driving, among other penalties.
The president of the union, Alhaji Najeen Usman
Yasin, who made the pledge at Lagos House, Ikeja, while on a visit to Governor,
Babatunde Fashola, said members of the union would remain law
abiding.
Yasin, who led other top officials of the
national body of the union on the visit, noted that the Fashola administration
had, through its people-orientated policies, especially in the transport
sector, enabled the union to prosper by establishing a mass transit
operation.
He told the Governor: “Implementation of the BRT
scheme by the union has, apart from assisting our union to acquire vehicles for
mass transit operations, also gone a long way towards boosting public transport
and accessibility to safe and secure road transportation in the State.”
