Don’t compromise when drivers come for test, LASG tells LASDRI staff

By Oziegbe Okoeki

Lagos State government on Saturday urged staff of Lagos State Drivers’ Institute (LASDRI) not to compromise whenever drivers come to the institute for test and certification.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transportation, Mr. Whenu Sewedo Oluseyi, gave the advice while declaring open a ‘Train the trainers’ workshop for LASDRI workforce’, organised by the institute in its premises at Oshodi.

He said traffic management is major in ensuring that things move freely and smoothly in Lagos and that is why “we must key into the arrangement of the state government in ensuring that there is free and smooth flow of traffic in the state.”

The state government, Oluseyi said, is doing much in traffic management and transportation generally to ensure free flow of traffic, “roads are being reenforced and fixed, LASTMA and VIS are on top of their beat and we must work hand in hand with them.” He added that transportation is one of the key pillars of the administration’s development agenda.

“We are all very important in ensuring things move freely, ours is essentially because we prepare the drivers, so we must ensure we do it right so that driving will be less stressful. We must do it the way it should be done and say it the way it should be said just to be sure the drivers do it right.”

He told them that the workshop was very important because the skills of yesterday cannot cope with development of today and the technology of yesterday is different from that of today.

In her remarks, General Manager LASDRI, Alhaja Afusat Tiamiyu, said the training was to improve the skills of the institute’s staff on training of drivers and better ways to relate with them, adding that training and retraining of drivers will go a long way in assisting the institute.

She urged the over 100 drivers’ instructors and members of her staff to realise that drivers are their customers so they must be patient while dealing with them.

Tiamiyu said, “we want everybody to know how to handle emergency situations any time there is an accident to reduce pains and death.”