The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has lamented over how some passengers harass officers of the agency out of ignorance while defending drivers of commercial buses, popularly known as danfo.
Disclosing this to the public, on Tuesday, the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, revealed that the idea of commercial buses were ignored many times when committing offences was wrong
He said: We see some passengers coming down from the bus and descending on our officers and some of them have been harmed and beaten up in the process.
“The passengers claim that the bus driver had not done anything without them having prior notice that the driver had committed an infraction previously.
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“We just don’t pounce on these persons, an infraction had already been committed and we will not continue to tolerate these abuses on our officers.
“The fact remains that at the point few of them are committing these traffic infractions, as noticed by private car owners, and they’re not apprehended, does not mean that we don’t have any plan of impounding their vehicles.
“For example, if you have a commercial bus coming from Mile 12 going to Onipanu, if it commits any traffic infraction in Ketu, we have to be strategic if we want to arrest and impound the commercial bus, unlike the car owners.
“They (bus drivers) don’t care for their vehicle to be arrested, they even get rid of anything ahead of them just to escape with their bus.
