Lagos Passengers Stranded As BRT Employees Join ASUU Strike

Commuters in Lagos, western Nigeria, were stranded, Saturday morning, when workers with the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT scheme refused to act as they protested their unpaid salaries. The commuters, who expected to board the bus after the monthly sanitation, were left to bemuse their fate once the boarding points at Ketu and Ojota bus stops were  empty.  It was revealed that the ticketers and drivers refused to act as their salary for last month hadn't been paid-a situation which they're not used to.

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The ticketers and bus drivers met using their bosses at their Ketu office and efforts made by our correspondent to obtain the management to talk, proved futile because the correspondent was bundled out of the park and his recording device seized. However, two of the drivers who later spoke on the problem of anonymity, accused a senior staff of cutting their earnings.

According to the drivers who claimed to be a senior staff,” ever since this man came aboard, things have changed drastically. He has kept making promises which he hasn't kept for once. Our salary was always paid on the twenty-fifth of the month but now, we are yet to obtain our salaries.

“We used to obtain eight tins of milk monthly before he came but presently, we don't get any and there isn't any explanation for this.

“The leadership has not also told the truth about our salary because we earn just N45,000 as contrary to the N75,000 that outsiders have been made to believe”