Ogun: RTEAN chieftain asks police to monitor hoodlums at parks

A leader of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) in Ogun State, Oluomo Akibu Titilayo, popularly called Efele, yesterday appealed to various security agencies to monitor the activities of some members allegedly nursing the idea of creating acrimony at various parks in the state. Titilayo’s reaction followed a protest by some aggrieved members […]

A leader of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) in Ogun State, Oluomo Akibu Titilayo, popularly called Efele, yesterday appealed to various security agencies to monitor the activities of some members allegedly nursing the idea of creating acrimony at various parks in the state.

Titilayo’s reaction followed a protest by some aggrieved members of the union who on Monday stormed the Police Area Command, Igbeba, Ijebu Ode local government to register their grievances over alleged suspension from various parks in the area.

He also denied the allegation that some members of the union were barred from partaking in transport activities from various parks in the Ogun East area of the state.

Titilayo, in a chat with newsmen yesterday, disclosed further that “the ambience on union activities has been friendly and accommodating since the Governor Dapo Abiodun administration assumed office.”

According to him, no legitimate member of the union in the area had been stopped from transport business.

He added that the Transport Committee recently inaugurated by Gov Abiodun to sanitise activities at various parks in the state had lived up to expectation.

“We operate a process where genuine complaints from members are lodged and addressed. The leadership of the union then looks into it in a way to resolve them. But the reverse is the case in this situation. We have it on good authority that those protesters were hoodlums hired by some recalcitrant members to cause mayhem in the state.

“It is important to state the obvious as we now have a friendly atmosphere at various parks, unlike what obtained in the past. We live in harmony as all of us now relate as one extended family.

“Let me also add that no single member of the union has been denied of his responsibility. So, those protesters are either hired to foment trouble at the parks to satisfy their ulterior motives or are against the peaceful atmosphere we now have in the union,” the union leader said.