Lagos to introduce Auto Vehicle Inspector device

Lagos to introduce Auto Vehicle Inspector device
AbdulSemiu Babalola, Lagos

The Lagos State government in South West Nigeria says it is set to introduce Auto Vehicle Inspector device that could track vehicles and ensure safety and security of motorists in the commercial city’s highways.

The state’s Commissioner for Transport, Mr Kayode Opeifa, stated this while briefing the state Executive Council members chaired by Governor Babatunde Fashola, at the Council chambers, Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja.

Helping in crime detection

The Commissioner explained that a single punch on the phone can generate data on a particular vehicle which will include the registration number, information about the owner, the engine number and chassis number among others.

Opeifa said the new method will eliminate the long process and time involved in physically checking of vehicle details.

”The Auto Vehicle Inspector Device has several advantages. It will improve traffic management level, vehicles can easily be tracked, it will improve safety and security on the highways as the device will assist the Police in crime detection”, he explained.

On other functions of the device, he pointed out that research had shown that 14 percent of the green house gas effect is caused by vehicles discharging carbon monoxide into the atmosphere, noting that the new device would assist in reducing this because vehicles that are not road worthy will not be allowed on the roads.

He assured that when the new national drivers’ license being planned by the Federal Government becomes operational, the new device will assist agencies like the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIOs) to work collaboratively and obtain information.

The Director of Finance and Administration in the Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA), Mrs Olubukola Omolaja, said that 100 units of the device had already been made available to the Lagos State Traffic Motors Agency (LASTMA), explaining that the personnel were undergoing training on how to handle them.

Pilot scheme

The Commissioner said that with the statistical details of what had happened in the operation of the system under the pilot scheme in the past two weeks, it was clear that only road worthy vehicles would ply the roads.

This, he said was because each motorist was made to know that he could be apprehended for not undergoing road worthy test or possessing the Hackney permit for commercial vehicles.

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