Sanwo-Olu Boosts LASTMA’s Leadership Capacity With Comprehensive Retraining Initiative.

Emmanuel Clement 

The Lagos State Government, under the leadership of Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has approved a comprehensive retraining program for the senior command of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA).

The 5-day executive leadership and capacity-development convocation of fifty (50) zonal heads of the Authority, culminating in eighty-two (82) principal officers aims to enhance the managerial sophistication and intellectual armory of LASTMA’s strategic hierarchy.

This initiative builds on the Governor’s earlier directive to retrain over 3,000 frontline personnel across the Agency. The retraining program will focus on doctrines of ethical stewardship, strategic foresight, evidence-based decision-making, and sustainable urban mobility management.

By endowing LASTMA’s strategic hierarchy with enhanced managerial sophistication and broadened intellectual armoury, Governor Sanwo-Olu’s administration aspires to engender an agile, adaptive, and globally consonant traffic governance architecture capable of mastering the ceaseless complexities and protean demands of Lagos’ metropolitan arteries.

This gubernatorial imprimatur epitomises the Governor’s cognizance of the irreplaceable salience of the Agency’s leadership stratum, the very fulcrum upon which operational efficiency and disciplinary cohesion of field officers pivot. The retraining enterprise, therefore, is purposed to inculcate doctrines of ethical stewardship, strategic foresight, evidence-based decision-making, and sustainable urban mobility management thus fortifying LASTMA’s institutional resilience against the vicissitudes of Lagos’ dynamic traffic realities.

Declaring the programme open, the General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, extolled the Governor’s perspicacious intervention, portraying it as a deliberate and inestimable investment in the intellectual and professional capital of the Authority. He averred that the exercise would serve as a catalytic crucible for professional refinement, operational concord, and an augmented reservoir of public confidence in the Agency’s statutory mandate.

 

According to Mr. Bakare-Oki, “The training modules encompass Job Description and Performance Management, Effective Leadership in Organisational Development, Incident Management and Conflict Resolution with Emotional Intelligence, Effective Communication and Presentation Skills, Stress and Health Management, as well as Ethical Standards and Discipline.”

Earlier in his remarks, the Director of Training and Human Capacity Development of LASTMA, Mr. Akinpelu Ayuba, lauded the Governor’s indefatigable devotion to unlocking the latent potential embedded within the Agency’s human resources. He asserted that perpetual training and retraining constitute the quintessence of institutional vitality and inevitably contribute to heightened efficiency in service delivery to the motoring citizenry.

Mr. Ayuba further enjoined Lagos motorists to consistently adhere to extant traffic regulations and to demonstrate civility, decorum, and reciprocal respect in their engagements with traffic officers. He underscored that the cultivation of constructive attitudinal comportment is indispensable to the consolidation of a safe, orderly, and progressive motoring environment across the State.

For prompt intervention during emergencies, road mishaps, or traffic-related emergencies, the motoring public is urged to avail themselves of LASTMA’s multilingual toll-free hotline: 080000527862, accessible in Yoruba, English, and Pidgin.