The Oyo State Road Traffic Management Authority (OYRTMA) on Tuesday cleared all parked vehicles and wares on the roads causing perpetual and avoidable traffic in Ibadan metropolis that results in untold hardship on commuters and all road users along busy routes in the state capital.
According to the General Manager of OYRTMA, Ayoade Adeoye, the enforcement is sequel to several public complaints and official petitions to the Authority, coupled with traffic gridlock that characterized travel experience of motorists in and around the axis.
While addressing newsmen after the exercise, the General Manager, Oyo state Road Management Authority, Ayoade Adeoye, explained that the move was not to spite any persons, tribe or religion but to ensure the safety of all road users within the entire territory of Oyo State particularly along the busy roads.
In his words, Adeoye said: “This exercise is aimed at enthroning sanity in all major and busy roads. The agency has successfully, through its operational activities and roles on the road, reduced the fatality of road accidents , rate of accidents has also reduced drastically in oyo state metropolis.
“It is specifically to ensure the safety of all road users, minimize travel time along those routes because of the indiscriminate parking and laissez-faire attitude of some vehicle owners around the area.
“We have received multiple public complaints through official letters by concerned residents in those areas as well as numerous calls to from motorists to sanitize the areas.
“We have sufficiently sensitized vehicle/tricycle/motorcycle owners as well as business owners around those axis to shorn the practice of indiscriminate parking and road encroachment.
According to Adeoye, “we discovered that the actualized result with regards to compliance to extant road traffic laws of Oyo State along those routes was far bellow our expectations.
“More hardship is being inflicted on road users on daily basis and traders had taken over the road corridor almost up to the median. We further engaged the leaders of the communities dwelling within the vicinity and yet, most vehicle owners and traders remained adamant.
“To ensure the safety of all road users particularly as we, at OYRTMA, are now transitioning to a more Sustainable System of traffic management in-line with the Sustainable Development Masterplan of the State Government under Omituntun 2.0 led by His Excellency, Engr. Seyi Makinde, The Executive Governor of Oyo State”, Adeoye said.
He advised motorists and all the people of the state to ensure they maintain cleanliness and to shun illegal parking at the roadside.
The enforcement exercise was carried out in Agodi Gate, Oje, Olomi Markets, Mokola, Sango, Eleyele and Ojoo routes.
