‘Ay Na Feh!’

‘Ay Na Feh!’

“While will they give drivers ticket for driving without plates and they are doing the doing the same thing; ay na feh?”

The newly established Traffic Management Incorporated, which is working in collaboration with the Liberia National Police (LNP) seems robust in pursuit of traffic control amid the complexity of congestion and traffic violations that greatly affect vehicle operators, commuters and pedestrians in Monrovia and its environs.

 The capitol city of Liberia is beleaguered with population as traffic personnel of the LNP strive to provide safety while pedestrians struggle to commute from one location to another in search of making ends-meet.

Unbending traffic violations in the capitol and parts adjacent occur daily as law enforcers pursue violators of regulations across the city to maintain law and order.

Traffic law violators, non-licensed drivers and vehicles that are not road worthy regularly face the wraths of traffic police who either pull over arrested operators and vehicles to police depots for impoundment, or levy fines on the drivers to be paid into government’s coffers, now by way of LTMI in Congo Town.

Though the task of Traffic Management helps to ensure free flow of traffic void of accidents, deaths and other acts, it has been observed that several of the patrol vehicles being used by LTMI officers around the city are doing so without license plates, a blatant violation of laws they are supposed to be policing; especially when vehicle operators are being hunted and if caught, reprimanded for traffic violations.

The identical patrol vehicle captured on camera in the streets of Sinkor on Thursday morning in a congested traffic without any license plate was a ‘Renault Duster’; marked 111 with the inscription: Special Traffic Control.

Observers, especially vehicle operators who feel offended by the actions of traffic personnel have argued that law enforcers should set good examples of the regulations they are enforcing.

“Ay na feh,” Blama, a commercial driver commented when he glimpsed at the police patrol vehicle without a license plate. Blama was constrained to comment while displaying fresh receipts from paying for tickets he was issued last week; “while will they give drivers ticket for driving without plates and they are doing the doing the same thing; ay nah feh?”

Other pedestrians also argued that though it is the duty of the police or their designate in this instance to enforce regulations in order to protect and save lives and properties, they should be void of those violations against traffic regulations.