Primero transport services limited, the company that manages the blue air-conditioned buses that coveys commuters from Ikorodu to TBS is in the news again. This time, some of their frustrated customers whose efforts to board a bus at the Irawo bus station failed, engage in a serious fight.
This incident transpired at about 9am this morning, the Irawo BRT Standing Unit was in commotion as passengers engaged in a serious dirty-blow which resulted into two factions. Two young men, between 30years and 40 years of age were in a dispute over who was on the queue and whom wasn’t.
The argument led into a fight, when the two men started to poking each other in the face, they disrupt the activities of Primero for a while, while other commuters weren’t allowed entrance into the bus.
Unknown to the other, one of the two had his gang around, who later joined in the fight and he was beating and injured before the arrival of the Police.
To avoid the traffic on the Ikorodu-Road to Ketu and Ojota, passengers were trapped on a long queue due to unavailability of these BRT buses. Mr. Olalekan, who had been on the queue for about an hour, expressed his dissatifaction, “I have been here for about an hour, yet there is no bus available, others have been here for some hours. This is what I encounter from Monday to Sunday, especially on Mondays, if Primero can not operate this service properly, they should just make the road available to other cars. It is getting tiring.”
Stundents who were on their way to school also expressed their concerns about the endless queue, some have been standing there about 2hours, school resumes at 8am and they are late already.
Trying to know the cause of the long and stagnant queue, interviews cutting across the passengers put the blame on shortage of BRT buses. Mr Emmanuel, one of the passengers on the strand, suggested that the lift of ban on motorcycles popularly known as Okada would be of great help. “If there were bikes, I would have been out of here,” he said furiously. “The intervention of bike riders will put an end to this menace. I always experience this mostly on Mondays mornings.”
Irawo is standing located between Owode and Ajegunle, a secured and developed Kosofe community.
