Unpaid salaries: Passengers Stranded As BRT Workers Go On Strike

Commuters in Lagos, western Nigeria,
were stranded, Saturday morning, when
workers with the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT
scheme refused to work as they
protested their unpaid salaries .
The commuters, who expected to board the
bus after the monthly sanitation, were left
to bemuse their fate when the boarding
points at Ketu and Ojota bus stops were
empty.
It was revealed that the ticketers and
drivers refused to work as their salary for
last month had not been paid-a situation
which they are not used to.
The ticketers and bus drivers met with their
bosses at their Ketu office and efforts
made by our correspondent to get the
management to talk, proved futile as the
correspondent was bundled out of the park
and his recording device seized.
However, two of the drivers who later
spoke on the condition of anonymity,
accused a senior staff of cutting their
earnings.
According to one of the drivers who
claimed to be a senior staff,”since this man
came on board, things have changed
drastically. He has kept making promises
which he has never kept for once. Our
salary was always paid on the twenty-fifth
of the month but now, we are yet to get
our salaries.
“We used to get eight tins of milk monthly
before he came but presently, we don’t get
any and there isn’t any explanation for
this.
“The leadership has not also told the truth
about our salary because we earn just
N45,000 as against the N75,000 that
outsiders have been made to believe”.

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