14 LASTMA OFFICERS TO FACE TRIAL OVER EXTORTION, ABUSE IN LAGOS STATE
About 14 officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority
(LASTMA) has been arrested over alleged extortion and high-handedness in line with the extant rules and regulations of the state.
The Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, disclosed in a statement on 23rd October 2023 that the personnel include eleven senior and three junior officers were caught at different locations across the state extorting money (bribes) from motorists.
Subsequently, their trial has been approved by the Authority’s General Manager, Mr. Bolaji Oreagba.
However, the cases against the officers had been investigated, and found guilty of extortion and high-handedness. Therefore, they would be tried in line with the extant rules and regulations of the state by facing the Government Disciplinary Committee known as the Personnel Management Board (PMB) Discipline, which would adjudicate their cases in line with the Public Service Rules.
Meanwhile, the Agency would continue to mete stiff and severe punishment on Officers and men in its effort to weed the agency of few bad elements tarnishing its image while the public was also warned to desist from inducing traffic personnel with bribes in order to avoid being prosecuted as the law frowned at both the “giver and the receiver.”
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