Lagos govt suspends RTEAN, inaugurates caretaker committee

By : Gbenga Salau

Date: 30 September 2022 3:02am WAT

Commuters scramble for space in a bus despite the high cost of transportation in Lagos, Nigeria, on April 20, 2021. - Nigeria's economy was already struggling with a fall in the price of oil, Nigeria's major export, and a weak local naira currency, before the global pandemic struck. Now Nigeria's inflation has soared to a four-year high of more than 18 percent in March 2021, with food prices up 22.9 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

Lagos State Government has suspended all activities of Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) with immediate effect to fulfill one of the cardinal objectives of the T.H.E.M.E.S agenda.

In a statement, yesterday, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Sola Giwa, said the suspension became imperative following pockets of violence recorded in Ojo and Lagos Island on Wednesday.

He said that a 35-man caretaker committee had been constituted to take over the union’s activities in the state.
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