Lagos BRT Workers To Strike Over Unpaid Salaries

Commuters in Lagos, western

Nigeria, were stranded,

Saturday morning, when

workers with the Bus Rapid

Transit, BRT scheme refused to

work as they protested

their unpaid salaries.

The commuters, who expected

to board the bus after the

monthly sanitation, were left to

bemuse their fate when the

boarding points at Ketu and

Ojota bus stops were empty.

Findings revealed that the

ticketers and drivers refused to

work as their salary for last

month had not been paid-a

situation which they are not

used to.

The ticketers and bus drivers

met with their bosses at their

Ketu office and efforts made by

our correspondent to get the

management to talk, proved

futile as the

correspondent was bundled out

of the park and his

recording device seized.

However, two of the drivers

who later spoke on the

condition of anonymity,

accused a senior staff of

cutting

their earnings.

According to one of the drivers

who claimed to be a senior

staff,”since this man came on

board, things have changed

drastically. He has kept making

promises which he has never

kept for once. Our salary was

always paid on the twenty-fifth

of the month but now, we are

yet to get our salaries.

“We used to get eight tins of

milk monthly before he came

but presently, we don’t get any

and there isn’t any

explanation for this.

“The leadership has not also

told the truth about our salary

because we earn just N45,000

as against the N75,000 that

outsiders have been made to

believe”.