The NGO/TMC beckons on all Nigerians, to be
their brothers’ keeper. Traffic Wardens
are Nigerians. They are not foreigners neither are they slaves. They should
therefore be accorded due respect and treated likewise in the Public Service.
The Traffic Warden Service had remained the worst treated Paramilitary
Organization in the country, without official leadership structures in place
since inception; without Office accommodation; without budget allocation or
logistics supply ever allocated to this so-called Organization. The Traffic
Warden Service and Traffic Wardens needs to be empowered to meet with the
function expected of them on the road. The Traffic Warden Service (TWS) remains the original Paramilitary
Organization set-up by law to take-over, manage and control the intra-city road
traffic control administration in the metropolitan cities and urban towns, from
Nigeria Police.
WHAT THEN WENT WRONG?
The Traffic
Warden Service has been terribly neglected and marginalized by both the Police
and the Federal Government without no just cause. The Nigeria Police have been
very crafty, hypocritical and rebellious by providing wrong, erroneous reports
and misinformation concerning the Traffic Warden Service and Traffic Wardens to
the Federal Government, with the mind to inconsistently continue to perpetrate
her (Police) Personnel on the road, to further the cause of their greed,
extortionist tendency and illegalities that the Police have been engaging in on
the road. The Police never want to vacate the road. The Police ferociously crippled the Traffic Warden Service Organization
and made her look like a Patient that refuses to respond to treatment. The
Police continued to stand on the way of Traffic Warden Service development,
influencing and blocking the various Committees’ Reports, set-up by the Federal
Government, meant to create emancipation and official recognition to the
Traffic Warden Service. This is social injustice and a dis-service to this
nation. The Traffic Warden Service and her Personnel deserve better treatment,
equal rights and attractive condition of service without discrimination,
humiliation, intimidation and the deplorable experience or otherwise as
segregated; Traffic Wardens deserve to be treated well. Their mother Service
needs to be given official recognition, same as done to other Paramilitary
Organizations in the country. Traffic
Wardens have the right to be treated well as Nigerians. Traffic Wardens have
the right of extrication.
Support the
NGO, in her vision to work on behalf of the Federal Government, to reposition
the Traffic Warden Service and Traffic Wardens (out of their current doldrums)
back to her legitimate function on the road.
The roads
are congested, relatively tight, un-passable and stressful because these Road Traffic Control Specialists
have been abandoned, neglected, not empowered, not equipped with the necessary
logistics to effectively discharge the functions expected of them on the road.
Traffic Wardens are in tight corners, unnecessarily overwhelmed and
perfidiously enveloped by their supposed partners in the Service --- The Nigeria Police. As a result,
the Traffic Warden Service and her Personnel are hardly brought to focus. No
one talk or speaks about the Traffic Warden Service predicament and her
underdevelopment saga. This is wrong, detrimental and a dis-service to the
nation. The NGO (now the Transitional Management Committee) has courageously
taken it upon herself to fight this social injustice, to reposition the
moribund Traffic Warden Service. The NGO is committed to correct most of the
abnormalities found in the polity that are inimical to the working condition of
Traffic Wardens, which the NGO met on ground.
The NGO
needs your moral support and financial assistance, to reposition the moribund
Traffic Warden Service back to her statutory function on the metropolitan,
urban and the rural roads. The Traffic Warden Service requires assorted
state-of-the-art logistics, ranging from:- Vehicles
(Official Cars, Operational Vehicles, Pick-ups, Buses, Ambulances, Lorries,
Heavy/Light Towing Vehicles, Speed Motorcycles, Communication gadgets,
Walkie-talkie, Digital Cameras, TV Equipment for traffic monitoring, Computer
sets, Reflective materials etc. The construction of the Service National
Headquarters in Abuja/ Headquarters Annex in Lagos is also of imperative
necessity. Also, the Zonal, States, Area and the Base Traffic Control
Units/Divisional Headquarters are to be constructed all over the nooks and
crannies of the nation. The establishment of Command Officers’ Mess, Insp/Sgts’
Club and Barracks accommodation in each State of the Federation is necessary
and desirable. These facilities are a desideratum to the Traffic Warden
Service. Right now, the Service and her Personnel have absolutely nothing to
call theirs or to work with as logistics. The Service is completely
handicapped. The Police have been rebellious, remained callous, covetous,
undermining and wicked to the Traffic Warden Service and her Personnel. The
NGO/TMC is collaborating with a Consulting Firm to provide capacity building,
human resources management and leadership courses(s) for Traffic Warden
Officers/Personnel. Warden Officers/Personnel have never been sent on
leadership training or capacity building course, neither have they ever been
involved in administrative work in the Police institution. Warden
Officers/Personnel need to be retrained and groomed in order to boost their
personal confidence and enhance their capacity for high productivity and
competence on the service delivery and on how to coordinate the four Ms
(Management, Men, Material and Money) on their new assignments. The NGO/Transitional Management Committee
has concluded plans to construct Commercial High-Rise Car Parks (up to 10 storey)
in strategic places in Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kano, Ibadan, Onitsha,
Warri, Aba and other metropolitan cities. This is to discourage the
phenomenon where Vehicles are parked carelessly and/or littered on the road
sides, creating unnecessary congestion, hold-up and road blockade. The NGO/TMC
also hopes to overhaul and correct most of the misnomal found on the roads and
flyovers constructed in particularly the FCT. She hopes to reshape the bridges, with intersections, widen most intra-city roads
and, create new road links and Bus
Stops, where necessary within the FCT.
It is also
necessary to proportionately increase the manpower of her Workforce through the
recruitment/enlistment of new intakes to about 1,400,000 Personnel, to enable the Service adequately cover her
sprawling function within the metropolitan cities/urban towns and the rural
areas. The establishment of independent training facilities for the Traffic
Warden Service is also very necessary. All these require funds to materialize. N2,500,000,000,000.00 (Two Trillion, Five
Hundred Billion Naira) is earmarked to start the Project. A journey of a
thousand mile begins with a step. Let us take that step now for the Traffic
Warden Service. Rome was not build in a day. The NGO is spontaneously working
on the Federal Government CHANGED initiative on urban development and job
creation.
The NGO/TMC
is calling on all Federal
Establishments, Federal Ministries and Parastatals, States and Local Government
Administrations, Religious Bodies, Manufacturers, Industrialists, Corporate
Organizations, Finance Houses, Business Concerns, Private Sector Organizations,
International Donors, Stakeholders on the road project and the good people of
Nigeria, to support the NGO/TMC in her vision to create a sense of
belonging to the Traffic Warden Service and her Personnel to enhance their
professionalism. For once, there are
patriotic and conscious Nigerians who think positively and are working
assiduously towards fashioning out positive development on the road traffic
control subsector in the country.
You can
donate generously or deliver any of the above-listed equipment and items
physically to the NGO/TMC. Please, call on the following numbers:- Opanwegede – 08064122135, Ekenonu –
08033232313, Bam – 08063157131, Temitope – 08072761444 or direct your
donation in cash and kind to the Chairman, Appeal Fund/Foundation Management
Committee, Traffic Warden Service Project, through the NGO’s Bank Accounts. A/C
Name: TRAFFIC WATCH & DEVELOPMENT
INITIATIVE, Zenith Bank A/C No. ………., ACCESS Bank A/C No. ………., FIRST Bank
A/C No. ………., UNION Bank A/C No. ………. Take that step now and watch out for an
efficient, improved and effective Traffic Warden Service and a free flowing
road traffic control service delivery in our metropolitan and urban roads.
SUPPORT THE NGO.
A smooth,
stress-free road traffic movement is tantamount to conserving the nation’s
man-hours, increased productivity, punctuality to work and the effective
management of the GDP. Let us collectively pull our resources together and
build the Traffic Warden Service. It’s all about vision, commitment, purpose,
service and being heard. Help to build bridges of benevolence. The NGO counts
so much on your moral and humanitarian support.
APPEAL FUND/FOUNDATION MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE