Lagos state Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, has said that with effect from 2015, the state government would subject vehicles plying routes in the metropolis to emission test.
Speaking during a stakeholders’ meeting with trucks and articulated vehicles owners in Lagos, at the weekend, the commissioner said the emission test would to be part of road worthiness test to be carried out on vehicles.
Opeifa said government had engaged the services of experts to carry out the test on vehicles.
According to him, the experts will come with their equipment to Lagos soon as government is ready to ensure that vehicles that are not road-worthy do not ply the roads.
He said government ought to have got the database of all commercial vehicles operating in the state by September 2014, adding that the need to begin emission tests was arrived at the last National Council on Transportation meeting in Lagos.
He decried the rate at which articulated vehicles were involved in accidents adding that government had concluding plans to checkmate the unpalatable situation.
He said: “We have noticed some new spate of accidents involving articulated vehicles in the state and we feel that we need to speak with the regulator, owners and operators of those vehicles. And that is why we have brought all the stakeholders in the transport sector. This is the second meeting in the last three months. And it is meant to discuss how we can reduce the number of accidents caused by articulated vehicles.”
Opeifa said the fallout of the national Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) officials held in Abuja recently was the resolve to send 400 tanker drivers to the Lagos Drivers Institute (LASDRI) for certification.
