Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo), Chairman of the Nigerian
Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Lagos State Council, has
warned drivers not to take laws into their hands.
MC Oluomo was reacting to a clash between operatives of the
Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and commercial
motorists on Wednesday that reportedly led to the death of a bus
conductor, Wasiu Kolawole.
Speaking through the NURTW secretary, Comrade
Sey Bankole, Akinsanya urged members to remain calm as union
leaders were investigating the situation.
He assured union members who had come to the NURTW headquarters
to protest the killing of Kolawole that the police the authorities
would arrest and prosecute the culprits.
“We have confidence in the leadership of Commissioner of
Police (CP) Hakeem Odumosu and the Taskforce Chairman, Yinka
Egbeyemi to do justice on the issue at hand,” MC Oluomo
said.
“CP Odumosu does not condone the harassments of members of
the public not to talk of the union by police officers.
We know the Taskforce Chairman, Egbeyemi did not direct the
officers to harass our members. We also know that some of those
officers are just being overzealous but no leader will watch his
followers being molested and harassed for doing their daily job. At
the union level, we maintain a good relationship with all police
formations especially the Taskforce.
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‘’Whatever issues the officers on the fields have with our
members, they should inform us and we will act swiftly on them.
Going to impound their vehicles daily and subjected them to heavy
fines is unfair.”
The NURTW boss also pleaded with the Police Commissioner to
order the release of the corpse of Kolawole to the union.
I learnt the Police Public Relations Officer (PRO) said the
conductor is not dead. Let him disclose the hospital he was taken
to for us to visit him.
‘’The police should release those arrested with their buses.
They were there to protest the “killing” of their colleagues before
they were arrested,” he said.
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