Lagos State Ministry of Transportation has urged stakeholders in the transportation business to ensure that No Passenger is allowed to stand in all public transportation vehicles, including the high capacity buses and that minibuses should have not more than two passengers seated in a row.
This was contained in a communique issued after a sensitisation meeting the State had with the Executives of major Stakeholders in the transport business including the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN.
According to the communique, transport Unions are to report any suspected case of COVID-19 to the government; the Unions were urged to observe the State Government’s latest guidelines banning large gatherings of people to protect the health and safety of Lagosians”.
“Transport Unions should ensure that sanitisers and thermometers are available at their respective motor parks”.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Mr. Sewedo Oluseyi Whenu, however urged the Transport Stakeholders to provide sanitary facilities in their motor parks.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Health, Dr. Oreoluwa Finnih implored the Union Executives to be mindful of the loading of passengers in their buses to check excesses and the spread of Coronavirus within the polity.
Transport unions agreed that their members would improve on their personal hygiene which is the most important preventive mechanism for the spread of the COVID-19 disease amongst others.
