Lagos State government has said FindMech, an innovative online Auto application designed to link vehicle owners anywhere in Nigeria with professional automobile technicians to diagnose their vehicles or carry out repair will help to tackle the problem of traffic congestion caused by broken down vehicles in the state.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation Engnr. Gbolahan Toriola stated this during the official launch of the “FindMech” automobile application, by FindMech Firm, in collaboration with Auto Mechanics Association of Nigeria , AMAN, and Nigeria Automobile Technicians Association, NATA, at Ikeja, Lagos.
While expressing commitment to support initiatives geared towards ensuring free flow of traffic and safety on roads across the state, Toriola said government would continue to ensure free flow of traffic and safety on roads across the state, in line with the THEME Agenda of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration’s which listed transportation as first item of its agenda.
Toriola, who noted that one of the major causes of traffic gridlock remain breakdown of vehicles and road accidents due to poor state of vehicles plying the roads, commended the initiative, describing it as critical and dynamic, which he said would go a long way in solving traffic gridlock, and making roads across the state very safe and seamless to motorists.
‘’We all know that the main pillar of the administration’s THEMES agenda is traffic management and transportation, the rolling stock on the roads are the vehicles. How do you ensure that a vehicle is maintained, how do you ensure that when such a vehicle breaks down, it is promptly and quickly taken off the road.
“This Findmech app will go a long way for road users, especially vehicle owners, to get a mechanic around that vicinity who is competent to fix the vehicle. It will go a long way to flush out quakes from the automobile system, it will help solve the problems of broken down vehicles causing traffic congestion on the road. In addition it will help to reduce carnage on our roads , broken down vehicles not quickly fixed can cause accidents. Transportation is dynamic, a small break down of vehicle on our roads considering the vehicle we have on our road.’’
Earlier, NATA President, Engr. Magaji Muhammad Sani, also applauded the innovation, saying that it could not have come at a better time than now as it would bring succor to the motorists and “boosting the economic viability of our members nationwide.”
This was just as he lamented that the auto technicians business “which hitherto is practised by only professionals is today bedeviled with quackery.
Earlier, Managing Director of FindMech, Mr. Oladipupo Akinfaye, said the App, would no doubt help in reducing the perennial traffic problem on the road, which he said was often caused by vehicle breakdowns ”which in most cases occupy fraction of the road and if not attended to in good time cause traffic gridlock.”
