The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has approved an intensive retraining initiative for the senior command echelon of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA).

The five-day executive leadership and capacity-development convocation, inaugurated on Monday at Oshodi, encompasses the entire cohort of 50 zonal heads of the authority, culminating in 82 principal officers.

The move is in line with the governor’s earlier directive at the threshold of this year, which facilitated the retraining of over 3,000 frontline personnel across the agency.

By endowing LASTMA’s strategic hierarchy with enhanced managerial abilities, Sanwo-Olu’s administration aspires to engender an agile, adaptive and globally relevant traffic governance architecture capable of mastering the ceaseless complexities of Lagos.

Declaring the programme open, the General Manager of LASTMA, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, extolled the governor’s intervention, portraying it as a deliberate investment in the intellectual and professional capital of the authority.He averred that the exercise would serve as an enabler of professional refinement.

Bakare-Oki said: “The training modules encompass job description and performance management, effective leadership in organisational development, incident management and conflict resolution with emotional intelligence, effective communication and presentation skills, stress and health management, as well as ethical standards and discipline.”