Some commercial drivers in the states of Ogun and Lagos have complained about what they claim to be an increase in the daily fees they must pay by purchasing tickets at numerous motor parks across the two states.
According to reports from Punch, on Thursday in the Mowe Motor Park in Ogun State and the Berger, Ketu, and Ojota Motor Parks in Lagos State, commercial vehicles were forced to pay for a series of tickets with varied prices ranging from N100 to N500.
Some of the tickets that had various inscriptions on them that listed who issued them and the reason they were issued.
Among them are those of the Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria, State Park and Garage Cleaners Commercial Bus Ticket, National Union of Road Transport Workers, Lagos State Consolidated Daily Ticket and others like loading tickets, booking tickets and marker tickets among others.
A driver, Oluwaseun Akinbamire narrated his experience in the hands of those unions, and demonstrated that Union officials tasked with enforcing payment employed a wide range of poor enforcement strategies.
“Some months back when I was going to Lagos, I didn’t wait at the motor park. One of the ticket collectors ran after me and removed my bus seat.
“He asked me to pay N1, 000, just because I didn’t pick up passengers from their park. He beat me up, but since there is nothing I can do, I left the seat for them and got another one.
“I have left the house since 5am and I had gone on two trips this morning, all the money with me is not up to N1,000.”
