Professional drivers caught driving recklessly in Lagos State and found not to have attended the Lagos State Drivers’ Institute for retraining, risk a N50,000.00 fine.
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the one year old Lagos State Drivers’ Institute, Ayodeji Oyedokun who stated this explained that if such a professional driver was privately employed, he would be made to pay personally and if he was employed by a corporate entity, his employer would have to shoulder the fine.
Oyedokun implored all professional drivers to avail themselves of the retraining and recertification opportunities which the institute has been providing by attending its one-day mandatory course.
He said the Drivers’ Institute has its centres in Epe, Badagry, Ikorodu, Oshodi and Lagos Island and that each centre was equipped with modern facilities to retrain and certify professional drivers.
There, the drivers would be retrained and recertified about basic knowledge relating to vehicle maintenance and traffic regulations,” he said and advised that they guide against undue rush as the enforcement of a law on this would commence soon.
According to him, Every professional driver driving in the state is expected to pay a N500 fee for the one day mandatory course which must be done on an annual basis.
He said Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has graciously subsidized the fee to be paid by every driver because if the institute has to charge, based on its course contents, it would cost each driver N5,000.00.
According to Oyedokun, the institute also designs and runs structured courses for hydraulic vehicles and tanker drivers who haulage combustive products, since it has what it takes to train them.
He said Part of the Institute collaboration is with the Lagos State Transport Management Authority which has been sending erring professional drivers to the institute for retraining and recertification in traffic codes, rules and regulations and how to ensure safety on the roads.
Oyedokun said the Drivers’ Institute is also mandated to develop a data base for professional drivers in Lagos State and that all its five centres were connected to the VSAT where information about any driver that has attended any of their courses could be sourced.
He said the institute’s 35 simulators for cars and buses and two others for articulated vehicles would award a driver on any of them a grade—without any human interference—to show how good his driving is.
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