Funso Doherty, governorship candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in Lagos, says the state government is not putting in the political will to eradicate street touts popularly known as agbero.
Speaking on Sunday during a governorship debate in Lagos,
Doherty said vested interests are frustrating efforts to modernise the state’s
public transportation system.
He said the state continues to rely on thousands of rickety
buses despite the need for a modern and efficient public transport system.
He asked why successive efforts to modernise public transportation in the state had taken so long, adding that residents deserve a better transport system.
Doherty said the continued operation of small buses was
sustained by an ecosystem involving vested interests.
“Our public transportation system is not modernised.
Thousands of rickety buses are moving around,” he said.
“We must ask ourselves: are these what our people deserve?
Why has it taken so long to modernise public transportation?”
He said the agbero system is part of the challenges facing
the state’s public transportation sector.
“In my opinion, the lack of a modern transportation system
is not by accident. There are vested interests in operating the bus system the
way it is,” the governorship candidate said.
“Many small buses are chaoticatically operated because there
is an ecosystem around it.
“Many of us understand this notion of the agbero system that
people talk about. There is no political will to deal with that problem.”
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