Emmanuel lkpeama
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has announced that its General Manager, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, has been awarded the “Traffic Management Chief Executive Officer of the Year 2025” by Razornews Limited.
The award was presented at the 2025 Inter-Agency Cooperation Awards & Lecture, held on December 2nd, 2025, at the Shoregate Hotel, G.R.A., Ikeja, Lagos.
The honour, which celebrates visionary leadership, administrative excellence and strategic inter-agency synergy stands as an unequivocal testament to Mr. Bakare-Oki’s transformative stewardship of LASTMA, as well as his unwavering commitment to repositioning the Agency as a paragon of operational discipline, service innovation and civic-minded responsiveness.
Mr. Bakare-Oki described the recognition as “a solemn call to deepen our pursuit of a traffic management architecture that is technology-driven, human-centric and globally benchmarked.”
He further dedicated the award to the resilient corps of LASTMA officers whose steadfast diligence across Lagos roads continues to safeguard mobility, catalyse economic productivity and enhance public trust in governmental institutions.
Razornews Limited, organisers of the award, extolled the LASTMA General Manager for his exceptional administrative acumen, strategic foresight and unrivalled dedication to inter-agency collaboration—qualities that have profoundly strengthened Lagos State’s traffic management landscape.
According to the award committee, Mr. Bakare-Oki’s leadership ethos has “set a new paradigm for harmonious institutional cooperation in the collective quest for a safer, smarter and more orderly Lagos.”
Investigator news reports that the 2025 Inter-Agency Cooperation Awards & Lecture convened senior government officials, security formations, emergency responders, corporate executives and development experts to dissect emerging issues in urban mobility, institutional partnership and service delivery.
The programme underscored the pivotal role of collaborative governance as a catalyst for infrastructural optimisation and sustainable metropolitan advancement.
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA ) affirms that this prestigious honour will further galvanize the Agency’s commitment to uphold the highest standards of professionalism, accountability and humane enforcement—in alignment with the visionary leadership of Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu who continues to champion the evolution of Lagos into a 21st-century megacity anchored on orderliness, efficiency and collective responsibility.