[FILES] Vehicles drive in chaotic traffic gridlock past yellow painted mini buses, popularly called Danfo, parked at Ojodu-Berger bus station in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, on October 19, 2022.
From miscreants popularly called agberos fighting for supremacy over the soul of Lagos motor parks to strike by commercial bus drivers over unbridled extortion and harassment by the same agberos and all manner of traffic enforcement personnel, commuting in and out of Lagos has become a nightmare. For three days, many commuters were left stranded on Lagos roads as commercial bus drivers in the state began a seven-day strike against alleged extortion and harassment from motor park thugs. The protest comes with the lingering excessive levies imposed by the management and caretaker committee members locally known as agberos on buses at almost every bus stop across the state.
Many Nigerians who are conversant with the complaints of the drivers sent solidarity messages to JDWAN and called for an end to the “unjust levies” Lagos commercial bus, taxi and tricycle drivers are subjected to. The Lagos state government has said it is looking into the demands of JDWAN, with a view to finding solutions to the issues raised by the association.
The menace is nationwide
It is not known as extortion, but it is MC Oluomo collecting tax to be remitted to Tinubu; don't mix it up.
Why are the transporters complaining? What happened to their arbitrary extortion and reckless increase of transport fares especially during rush hours thereby making life unbearable for commuters? They should deal with their problematic area boys and area fathers.