The Lagos State chapter of the Accord Party has called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to proscribe the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) following repeated violence by its members.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that factional members of the union on Thursday on Lagos Island attacked one another, leaving many injured including traders and commuters.
The fracas, which extended to Friday, left some people dead and paralysed business activities in the area.
The Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Dele Oladeji, reacting to the development in a statement on Saturday called on Sanwo-Olu to tame the members of the NURTW by proscribing the union with immediate effect.
Oladeji said, “Again, the members of the NURTW were enmeshed in a deadly fight on Lagos Island which was reported to have resulted in the untimely death of some four youths.
“This deadly clash created a security scare, in which innocent and hardworking residents of Lagos had to scamper into shops, crevices, under table and inside gutters for dear lives.
“Many rushed into shops and were locked in with the shop owners, just to stay away from stray bullets or being caught up in the fracas.
“Traders were forced to shut down their businesses, which led to the loss of transactions running into billions of naira. We advises the Lagos State governor to, with immediate effect, proscribe the NURTW for a peaceful and safe Lagos city.”
Mr Gbenga Oyerinde, the Special Adviser to Sanwo-Olu on Central Business Districts, said that security operatives had been mandated to arrest and prosecute anybody breaching the peace in a statement he released. (NAN)
