Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria (BCAN) says that its
members in Lagos State will start wearing uniforms from Jan. 1, 2018 for
security and effective service delivery.
Mr Isreal Adeshola, the National President of the association, disclosed this in Lagos on Sunday.
Adeshola said the operational uniform would bring sanity to the service in the state and the country as a whole.
According to him, the association has started training its members in
Lagos State and educating them on the job procedures and attitudinal
change while on duty.
“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 change in orientation of the members toward
passengers and traffic rules.
“By Jan.1, 2018, all our registered members will be in their
operational uniforms for proper identification and effective service
delivery,” he said.
The president explained that part of the reasons for training its
members was to ensure adequate security of passengers and good customer
relationship with the people they relate with.
He said that putting on uniforms with identification numbers would
ensure accountability and bring a sense of responsibility among the
members.
Adeshola said that the association was working towards eradicating
the menace of using under-age as bus conductors across the country.
He announced that persons from 18 years and above were qualified to join the association.
The president added that any minor found operating as a bus conductor should be arrested.
“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.
Mr Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transport had said that the
introduction of uniforms for bus conductors would ensure safety and
bring more development to the nation’s transport sector.
Amaechi spoke at the inauguration of the official uniforms for
members of the Bus Conductor Association of Nigeria (BCAN), Lagos State
chapter, on Thursday, August 2, at Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos.
“You have to change the perception of the people; you have to create a
positive impression about yourself and make yourself accessible,” he
said.