Lagos commuters stranded as bus drivers protest alleged extortion by police, LASTMA, others

Commuters travelling on the Iyana-Ipaja/Iyana-Iba axis of Lagos person been near stranded pursuing a onslaught by commercialized autobus drivers protesting alleged extortion by instrumentality enforcement and transport regulatory agencies.

The drivers, according to findings, stopped operations on the way implicit what they described arsenic persistent and expanding demands for wealth by officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, the Police, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, popularly known arsenic agbero.

Some of the affected drivers who spoke with journalists expressed vexation implicit the alleged regular extortion, describing the concern arsenic progressively unbearable for commercialized transport operators.

The drivers alleged that LASTMA officials regularly impounded their vehicles implicit assorted infractions and sometimes kept them for the full day, resulting successful important losses for some conveyance owners and drivers.

According to them, specified actions person continued to undermine their quality to marque a profit, arsenic the nonaccomplishment of operating hours translates straight into reduced regular earnings.

The drivers said they decided to retreat their services arsenic a mode of drafting attraction to their grievances and compelling the applicable authorities to code what they describ...