In April 2022, Lagos State Government launched Traffic Management Solutions (TMS) to digitally process traffic violations and enforce compliance. At the time, only the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officials could use it. In July 2024, LASTMA opened up digital traffic management for citizen participation. The agency launched a whistleblower application that allows citizens capture and report traffic offences. The app also partly digitises traffic offence adjudication for the agency and the road user.

Considering the traffic situation in Lagos, deploying these technologies should be a beacon of hope for the average road user. But there is a much more sinister underbelly to the process that led to this deployment. In 2015, Oladapo Olawale, the chief executive officer of Peach Studio Works, and his team made Ojutiti, a traffic management solutions application with the same exact interface and functions as TMS and the whistleblower application. Ojutiti was even copyrighted by Olawale and his team. But more importantly, he presented the same application to the Lagos State Ministry of Transport. After an engagement that spanned about two years, the M correspondence, only to launch the TMS in 2022.

In this interview, Peach Studio Works details how their engagement with the Lagos State Government went and how the transport ministry is daring the law by attempting a bold-face copyright infringement…

https://fij.ng/article/interview-how-lagos-govt-stole-my-copyrighted-traffic-management-solution-oladapo-olawale/

Ojutiti:
In April 2022, Lagos State Government launched Traffic Management Solutions (TMS) to digitally process traffic violations and enforce compliance. At the time, only the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officials could use it. In July 2024, LASTMA opened up digital traffic management for citizen participation. The agency launched a whistleblower application that allows citizens capture and report traffic offences. The app also partly digitises traffic offence adjudication for the agency and the road user.

Considering the traffic situation in Lagos, deploying these technologies should be a beacon of hope for the average road user. But there is a much more sinister underbelly to the process that led to this deployment. In 2015, Oladapo Olawale, the chief executive officer of Peach Studio Works, and his team made Ojutiti, a traffic management solutions application with the same exact interface and functions as TMS and the whistleblower application. Ojutiti was even copyrighted by Olawale and his team. But more importantly, he presented the same application to the Lagos State Ministry of Transport. After an engagement that spanned about two years, the M correspondence, only to launch the TMS in 2022.

In this interview, Peach Studio Works details how their engagement with the Lagos State Government went and how the transport ministry is daring the law by attempting a bold-face copyright infringement…

https://fij.ng/article/interview-how-lagos-govt-stole-my-copyrighted-traffic-management-solution-oladapo-olawale/

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