Edo State governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has charged the Managing Director of Edo State Traffic Control Management Agency (EDSTMA), Engr. Stainless Ijeghede, to stop indiscriminate parking of vehicles and traffic gridlock, especially in market areas across the State.
Governor Okpebholo gave the charge while decorating Ijeghede with his new rank as the head of EDSTMA.
Addressing the new Managing Director and his personnel at the Exco Chambers in the Government House in Benin City, the governor said the agency should do its job well by ensuring free flow of traffic across the State.
He called on Ijeghede and men of the agency to ensure they check indiscriminate parking of vehicles and buses, especially in market areas.
“Edo State belongs to all of us and whatever we are doing, we should do it with care not to harm anybody. I appeal to EDSTMA to ensure that the city is well kept because whenever I drive round town, I see vehicles everywhere as the city is not well kept.
“This is your primary assignment. You should ensure the city is well kept as vehicles park indiscriminately and they are causing obstruction. Traffic is not flowing as it should and it is causing serious gridlock. Is it that you are not doing your job well?
“Is it that you are not doing your job well or because you have a new leader that is why traffic is not flowing, or because you don’t know your job?
“You people should wake up and keep the State clean. Make sure that vehicles are parked well especially in the market areas. Monitor markets very well as these areas are looking really unkempt with vehicles and buses parked indiscriminately, causing traffic gridlock. Edo people are worst hit. They suffer from this. Ensure free flow of traffic so that the people will be happy,” Governor Okpebholo emphasised.
Responding, the EDSTMA boss, Engr. Stainless Ijeghede, thanked Governor Okpebholo for the opportunity to serve the people of Edo State and assured him of the loyalty of the agency.
He added that his men will do their job professionally and ensure that there is free flow of traffic across the State.
