Bus drivers call off strike in Lagos as stakeholders set up taskforce

Commercial bus drivers under the aegis of the Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria (JDWAN) yesterday called off their industrial action, which was declared last week over multiple levies and extortion.

Its National Leader, Abiodun Akintade; Chairman, Opeyemi Sulaiman and General Secretary, Ajimatanarareje Feyisayo, disclosed this after a meeting at the secretariat of the Lagos State Parks and Garages Management Committee in Agege.

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The meeting was facilitated by the Chairman of the Parks and Garages Committee, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo who has now constituted a taskforce to end extortion at bus stops and parks.

The leaders of the striking union decried what they called nefarious activities of touts that demand money from them at every bus stop.

The Chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages Management has however set up a taskforce team comprising 10 branch chairmen, nine members of the JDWAN and other nominees from the Chairman of Committee of Lagos State Parks Administration, Oba Sulaiman Adeshina-Ashade, the Oniba of Iba, to rid the bus stops of those extorting them.