Fashola said the only agencies recognised by law to manage traffic in the state are the Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC) and LASTMA, adding that the ‘illegal’ Federal Task Force were constituted to create confusion in the state.
The governor, who spoke at the fifth anniversary of Uniformed Voluntary Clubs in Lagos State public schools at the Police College, Ikeja, told newsmen that the task force group had political agenda ahead of the 2015 elections.
The dispute on whose right it was to control traffic on federal roads in Lagos led to a face-off between men of the task force (under the auspices of SURE-P/FERMA recruitment initiative) and LASTMA around the old toll gate end of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The brawl, it was gathered, led to injuries on two LASTMA officials.
According to him, “In the times of elections, all manner of behaviours would be seen. The report got to me and I think they are men of FERMA. That is what we have done with our SURE-P money. It is now for Nigerians and Lagosians to ask the Federal Government and the President if they had been honest with us on SURE-P savings of over N6 trillion, without appropriation on import of fuel.
“It was a savings to be used to improve our lives. We can now see how it has improved our lives; setting up an organisation that has no law about two months to general election,” he said.
Fashola reasoned that there are several highways in Lagos that such funds could have been judiciously used.
“Tin Can-Apapa-Oshodi Road is one of those roads. There was a container accident that crushed a car on that road yesterday (Monday). It is to that kind of routes that SURE-P money is supposed to be going, not to dissipate it into political organisations for a very wanton desperation to win election.”
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