Lagos bus conductors to get uniforms as from 2018

-Lagos moves to restore the dignity of labour for bus conductors by giving them uniforms and identification numbers.

-President of the bus conductors association, says the steps will ensure better relationship with customers and better ways of conducting business.

Activities of Lagos bus conductors to be re-packaged.

Members of the Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria, Lagos chapter will as from January 1, 2018, start wearing uniforms.

According to the President of Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria (BCAN), Israel Adeshola, who disclosed the information, the step was taken to restore sanity and dignity to the operation and activities of the bus conductors.

“The association has been able to train a reasonable number of conductors on behavioural change. We started the registrations and training at Lagos State Drivers Institute for attitudinal and change in orientation of the members toward passengers and traffic rules.

By January 1, 2018, all our registered members will be in their operational uniforms for proper identification and effective service delivery,” he said.

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According to Israel who said the association has started training its members in Lagos State, and educating them on the job procedures and attitudinal change while on duty, only persons from 18 years and above are qualified to join the association.

The BCAN national President further disclosed that the uniform with identification numbers is expected to ensure safety of passengers, good customer relationship, accountability and bring sense of responsibility among the members, and also eradicate the menace of using under-age as bus conductors across the country.

“We are coming out to tell Lagos residents that bus conducting is a respected profession like in other western countries where they are respected because they offered humanitarian services. In Nigeria, people see them as nobody which is not supposed to be so,” he said.