On Monday, Commercial bus, taxi and tricycle drivers began a 7-day strike in protest of the incessant and excessive levies being taxed on them by popular street urchins known as ”Ábgeros’ The strike has affected workers from getting to work as crowds were seen at various bus stops.
The Joint Drivers’ Welfare Association of Nigeria (JDWAN) had announced they would embark on the strike from 31st October over the inability of the state government to address the excessive levies.
“Drivers and commuters have had a brimful of extortion and harassment from the motor park management and caretaker committee thugs popularly known as Agbero,” Abiodun Akintade, the national leader of JDWAN, said in a statement on Sunday.
“It is also visible to the blind in Lagos that the cost of goods and services is a consequence of Agbero’s extortion, no goods can be Agen Sbobet Resmi delivered and 95% of working-class residents can be transported without the service of commercial drivers.
“The unfettered and violent extortion by the Lagos government agents has not only increased transportation fare beyond the affordability of bocoran slot gacor hari ini workers but also made every good and service out of reach of the poor Lagosians. ”
The People’s Alternative Political Movement (TPAP- M), also joined their voice to support the strike by JDWAN, and called for an end to “unjust levies” inflicted on Lagos commercial bus, taxi, and tricycle drivers. In a joint statement, Affiong Affiong, the Interim Chairperson and Akinkunmi Olawoyin, Secretary stated that the extortion of commercial bus, taxi and tricycle drivers has a wider economic implication. Having a ripple effect on the bus drivers and the extortions lead to increased pricing in goods and services.
