Lagos State Government like every other metropolitan city in the world has many challenges it has to contend with, these challenges range from the need to provide adequate and affordable housing for residents, provide drinkable water, creation of employment opportunities, provision of motorable road, maintain law and order, and also among others to protect lives and properties.
In order to carry out its responsibility of securing live and properties of people living in Lagos, one thing that has continued to pose a challenge to this responsibility is the alarming rate at which abandoned vehicles are flooding Lagos roads, especially Ikorodu in particular.
A survey carried out by Oriwu Sun revealed that there is an average of four (4) to six (6) abandoned vehicles along every street in Ikorodu community. However these abandoned vehicles are not made up of private vehicles but also National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) buses that were spotted along Itoikin Road, Ikorodu to Federal Low Cost Housing Estate.
However these abandoned vehicles most times cause unnecessary traffic gridlock in the area and road accidents. Apart from causing traffic, accident and serving as comfort zone for rapists, these abandoned vehicles could also be used as accommodation by armed robbers and government should be aware that apart from being a haven for armed robbers, it also possess security risks. They can be a veritable tool for hoodlums, miscreants, armed robbers and other forms of social vices, also they pose as health-risk to residents.
Therefore government should come up with various security measures including evacuation of the buses from the road which can easily be done by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), the earlier the government makes a law that will prohibit people from abandoning their vehicles on the main roads, the better for all of us