Traffic Lights are a set of automatically operated coloured lights, typically red, amber, and green, for controlling traffic at road junctions, pedestrian crossings, and roundabouts.
In Kano, like it is in most megacities in Nigeria, they are placed to control traffic at various points.
Daily News 24 reports that there have been significant improvements in the system around the metropolis.
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In an exclusive interview with, Nabilisi Abubakar Kofar Na’isa, the Public Relations Officer of Kano Road and Traffic Agency KAROTA, about the development of traffic lights in the state.
Nabilisi noted that “Traffic light is a computerised traffic regulator which is mostly fixed injunctions with high gridlocks, containing 3 signs which explain how road users should use the traffic light”.
“It is established to ease the movements of Kano people, which the red means stop, amber get ready and green means to move,” He said.
Nabilisi further explained how road users can not compare traffic lights with manual ways of controlling traffic.
“We get more than 50 defaulters every day as a result of that we make sure we give them the right punishment,” He said.
“We have almost ten offices in Kano, each centers have different KAROTA officers in different traffic light junctions to help control and minimized the traffic”
Nabilisi continued by saying the setting of traffic lights around the city has reduced the numbers of road defaulters to an unbelievable numbers.
Road users however complained that it only caused more harm than good.
A tricyclist named Hamza Shehu lamented “this traffic light is only for 60 secs, which is not sufficient for motorists, whereas increasing hold up, I prefer the manual way than the traffic light”.
Another motorist said, “we are in the 21st century, a century of civilization, therefore it’s a development in the state, if motorists will abide by the road trafficator”.
Nabilisi further advised road users to be law-abiding, in order to avoid sanction by security operatives.
