The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), under the stewardship of the General Manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, has formally conducted induction of eminent Media Practitioners as “Traffic Mayors.

This development is designed to fortify and complement the relentless exertions of LASTMA officers in the formidable yet indispensable enterprise of ensuring traffic order, safety, and mobility across the State.

This pioneering scheme represents an unprecedented synthesis of media advocacy and operational enforcement, strategically leveraging the communicative authority of the press to stimulate heightened public compliance, promote civic enlightenment, and engender a profound reorientation of behavioural attitudes on Lagos roads.

In his keynote address at the inauguration, Mr. Bakare-Oki extolled the irreplaceable role of the media as both architects of public consciousness and catalysts for societal transformation. He affirmed that the “Traffic Mayor” initiative constitutes an epoch-making milestone in the State’s quest to entrench a sustainable framework for traffic governance.

“This initiative is a deliberate and far-sighted attempt to broaden the frontiers of stakeholder engagement by embedding media practitioners—individuals whose voices command immense resonance in society—as active participants in the crusade for traffic sanity.

Under this collaborative framework, Traffic Mayors will operate in organic symbiosis with LASTMA officers—sensitising the motoring public, amplifying traffic advisor