Traffic Law: Legislator Takes Campaign To Constituency

Just a week after distributing multi-million naira materials to his Alimosho Constituents, Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Transportation, Commerce and Industry, Bisi Yusuf, has begun an enlightenment campaign on the new transport law of the state which he says would be passed very soon.

The lawmaker also used the opportunity to distribute 100 crash helmets and 150 medicated glasses and also gave out a sponsorship form for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to one of the constituents who gave her name as Mrs. Abiodun Oroja Giwa.

Beneficiaries of the medicated glasses had earlier been screened by medical experts brought to the constituency by the lawmaker, who explained that he had run the programme since he was Chairman of Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area.

He appealed to commercial motorcycle riders in the constituent to be mindful of the new traffic law as it came with stricter sanctions against traffic offenders.

“You must use your crash helmets every time, you must not carry pregnant women and children less than six years old,” he told them.

Meanwhile, the lawmaker has promised to take the complaints of residents of Aboru in Agbado-Okeodo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) concerning their perceived neglect by the state government to the appropriate quarters.

The residents, who complained through the Aboru Landlord Association during a meeting with the lawmaker, asked Yusuf to prevail on the government to address the infrastructure problems in the community.

According to a spokesman of the association made up of 30 Community Development Associations (CDAs) in the area, Sunday Adelaja, Aboru cannot boast of one good road. The canal in the community lacked proper channelisation while the community has no water, no electricity and even security.

“This is a community that can boast of one million population, a community that does not default in the payment of tenement rates or land use charge, a community where we have about 300,000 working inhabitants paying their taxes to the government.

“Yet we are being paid back with this kind of gesture, and it’s like we can’t continue to run things this way and that is what informed our visit,” Adelaja said.

The lawmaker, after listening to their complaints, asked them to write to the governor and copy him and the Commissioner for Works so he could take the matter up from there.

—Eromosele Ebhomele