Truckers lament harsh business environment

recently said they pay a minimum of N30,000 to hooligans in Lagos before they can be allowed to change a flat tyre on the road.

The Secretary General of the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, Aloga Ogbogo, said that most times truck drivers were forced by these hooligans to apply the automatic brakes, which sometimes results in road accidents. “Sometimes the activities of these ‘areas boys’ who stop moving trucks because they want to collect money. They will distract the driver, attack him and make him lose concentration. The issue of these ‘areas boys’ harassing and distracting drivers, Lagos State Government should put mechanisms in place to checkmate this.

Also speaking, a chieftain of NARTO, Abdullahi Inuwa, said, the activities of these hooligans make it difficult for the drivers to give attention to these trucks when the need arises.

These shouldn't be on our road!

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