Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Organisation (Gafamorg) has condemned what it described as indiscriminate extortion of motorists in Lagos by the state traffic management authority, known as LASTMA. Members of the Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria (JDWAN) in Lagos recently embarked on a week-long protest against excessive taxations, extortions and physical assaults by the management of motor parks and garages in the state.
The Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria (JDWAN) says its members still face violent attacks from hoodlums and motor park thugs and officials in Lagos. The Lagos chapter of JDWAN is the umbrella body of commercial drivers in the state. In a statement on Wednesday signed by its National Leader, Akintade Abiodun, JDWAN urged the Lagos state government to arrest and publicly prosecute the “violent agberos (motor park thugs) that attack us daily, stop the extortion at every bus stop and give the poor drivers some time.”
The striking commercial drivers in Lagos under the aegis of the Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria (JDWAN) have said the outstanding issues that led to the strike have not been resolved yet. The group in a statement issued by its National President, Comrade Abiodun Akintade, and obtained by SaharaReporters on Sunday also accused the Lagos State government of arresting and charging some of their members to court for joining the strike.