LASG Urges Transport Unions To Reduce Minibus Passengers By Two Per Row
The Lagos State Government has declared that all Minibuses should have not more than two passengers seated in a row, urging all road transportation unions to ensure that sanitisers and thermometers are available at their respective motor parks.
There are four passengers per row in all commercial Minibuses plying the major routes in the Lagos and Nigeria in general.
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The Lagos State Ministry of Transportation gave the directive at a sensitisation meeting with the Executives of major stakeholders in the transport business sub sector, including the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria ( RTEAN).
This was contained on the official Twitter handle of the state government @followlasg.
The meeting which was held at the Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja was aimed at educating the stakeholders in the transport system on the need to join hands with the State Government in the public awareness campaign against the spread of the deadly Coronavirus disease.
Major points in the Communique issued at the end of the meeting are: No Passenger should be allowed to stand in all public transportation vehicles, including the high capacity buses; Minibuses should have not more than two passengers seated in a row.
Transport Unions should ensure that sanitisers and thermometers are available at their respective motor parks.
Others include: Transport Unions are to report any suspected case of COVID-19 to the government; the Unions were urged to observe the State Government’s latest guidelines banning large gatherings of people to protect the health and safety of Lagosians.
Transport unions agreed that their members would improve on their personal hygiene which is the most important preventive mechanism for the spread of the COVID-19 disease amongst others.
While addressing the Transport Union Leaders, Commissioner for Home Affairs, Prince Olanrewaju Elegushi urged them to fully engage their members on the preventive measures already in place to forestall further spread of the virus.
The SA to the Lagos State Governor on Transportation, Mr. Toyin Fayinka also affirmed that prevention of further spread of the virus should be paramount to all and sundry, hence the need to address seating arrangement in public buses to avoid overloading of passengers.
He encouraged the transport union members to be vigilant and meticulous while exercising utmost caution by working with the State Government to rid Lagos State of the COVID-19.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Mr. Sewedo Oluseyi Whenu, urged the transport stakeholders to provide sanitary facilities in their motor parks.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Health, Dr. Oreoluwa Finnih implored the Union Executives to be mindful of the loading of passengers in their buses to check excesses and the spread of Coronavirus within the polity.
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