The Lagos State government say it plans to deploy a fleet of 65 buses along major some routes from Monday, February 3, to ameliorate the hardship commuters are facing as a result of the ban on the operators of motorcycles and tricycles in some parts of the state.
The state’s commissioner for information Gbenga Omotosho said last month that the restriction came “after consultations with stakeholders, the State Security Council, in compliance with the extant Transport Sector Reform Law 2018.”
Omotosho said it is the first stage of a pilot to which the state government’s plan to sanitise its “roads and protect Lagosians from the negative effects of what he calls illegal modes of transportation.” in an earlier broadcast, omotosho reeled out the disturbing statistics where he said that, from 2016 to 2019 there has been over 10,000 accidents associated with motorbikes and tricycle riders in the state, with total number of reported deaths excluding many more unreported cases put at 600 within the period under review.
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