The Lagos State Truck and Cargo Operators Committee (LASTCOC) has condemned the unjustified and unwarranted extortion and assault of truck drivers in Lagos State by hoodlums.
This name is coming within the wake of an assault on a truck driver by hoodlums alongside the Mile 2—Oshodi specific highway on the weekend, which has left the motive force hospitalised.
The LASTCOC Chairman, Lukman Shittu, whereas addressing the media on the incident, mentioned some toll-collecting thugs on the Berger bus cease outwards on Mile 2-Oshodi Categorical Highway on Saturday morning flagged down a loaded containerised truck to extort the motive force.
He mentioned that when the motive force refused to cease, one of many thugs jumped onto the motive force’s facet and began dragging the steering wheel with him, which made the truck swerve to the opposite facet of the highway and crash into some tokunbo automobiles parked alongside the highway.
Shittu mentioned that as the motive force tried to seize one of many hoodlums, he was stabbed from behind and rushed to the hospital.
Shittu additional said that on December 5, 2023, on the actual spot, the identical extortion hoodlums dragged steering with a driver, resulting in the falling of a truck and its loaded container, inflicting big monetary loss to the importer and the truck proprietor.
He mentioned the actions of those damaging and lawless hoodlums are killing transportation companies in Lagos State and discouraging international buyers from investing within the transportation enterprise.
In keeping with him, these hoodlums injury vans, burgle containers in transit, acquire cash, and assault the drivers, inflicting highway accidents and visitors gridlock, thereby making life insufferable for members of the general public.
He mentioned these hoodlums, who usually are not including any worth to our financial system other than destruction, have made the transport enterprise setting in Lagos State so hostile for truckers to function with their unlawful a number of checkpoints in Mile 2, Lagos Badagry Categorical Highway, Ikorodu, and different elements of the state.
Shittu mentioned the marauding hoodlums on roads in Lagos State are a possible risk to the domestication and deriving advantages of the African Continental Free Commerce Settlement (AfCFTA), in addition to reaching the T.H.E.M.E. agenda and coverage of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s authorities within the space of transportation.
He warned that the trucking neighborhood can not proceed to fold its arms and watch hoodlums below the guise of working for the Nationwide Union of Highway Transport Employees (NURTW), the Highway Transport Employers Affiliation of Nigeria (RTEAN), native governments, and a few people to jeopardise the haulage enterprise, import and export economies, income technology, commerce facilitation, and seamless evacuation of cargoes to and from the nation’s seaports within the state.
“We’re due to this fact calling on the federal government in any respect ranges, related stakeholders, and those that want effectively for the financial system of Nigeria and Lagos State to rise and do the needful on the menace of hoodlums which can be destroying our vans, robbing our drivers, burgling containers in transit, blocking highways, inflicting visitors, and inflicting ghastly accidents which have been claiming harmless lives and militating towards the progress and stability of trucking enterprise in Lagos State,” he mentioned.
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