{"id":3629,"date":"2013-05-14T05:24:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/corruption-157-lastma-officers-dismissed\/"},"modified":"2013-05-14T05:24:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:24:54","slug":"corruption-157-lastma-officers-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/corruption-157-lastma-officers-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption: 157 LASTMA Officers Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lagos State Government has sacked 157 officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA over cases of gross misconduct.<\/p>\n
The names of 100 LASTMA officers sacked in April were published in the in-house newspaper of the state government, Alausa Alert, while 57 others were sacked a few weeks before the latest cleansing.<\/p>\n
The sacked officers were indicted for corruption, certificate forgery, bribery and dereliction of duty.<\/p>\n
P.M .NEWS<\/em> also gathered that the names of another batch of about 50 LASTMA officers have just been forwarded to the Personnel Management Board, PMB, the disciplinary organ of the government, to look into cases of gross misconduct against them. They also may be sacked in a few weeks\u2019 to come.<\/p>\n The dismissed LASTMA officers, whose pictures were published in Alausa Alert were made to face the PMB to prove their innocence but failed to do so. The Civil Service Commission has already issued sack letters to the affected officers.<\/p>\n