The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos, Mr Adeniji Kazeem has said that the Lagos State Government will soon tackle the menace of touts popularly called agberos on its roads.
He said the state government had found it difficult to tackle the menace before now because the agberos were members of a union.
However, he said the State government would soon phase out the private buses that the touts work with and replace them with government-owned luxurious buses, thereby rendering the agberos redundant.
He said, “The agberos, who are, in the real sense , bus conductors , are members of a union of sort . So , the question will be : Can you proscribe them ? Can you regulate them ? I will say well , if a union has been recognised , you have to regulate them actually to make things much better . And that is a very important point which we are taking on. The Ministry of Transport and the police interface with these people and it ’ s something that we are going to take on. ”
Kazeem further disclosed that the private buses would not fit into the mega-city dream of the Ambode administration, hence the decision to phase it out.
The Attorney General, who addressed journalists in his Alausa,Ikeja office over the weekend, added that the state government was in the process of revolutionalising public transportation in the state.
He said private buses would give way to world-class luxurious buses as befits the status of a megacity.
He said the government had concluded plans to land the first tranche of the buses later in the year.