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Why bus drivers insist to boycott roads for 7-day

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*Complain Agberos now reign on Lagos roads, lead police, LASTMA in extortion •Lament breakdown of law and order on Lagos roads, want govt to stop menace IRKED by the excesses of agberos , commercial bus drivers under the aegis of Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria, have declared to stay off the road on Monday, October 31,2022, for 7 days to drive home their grievances. The association in a statement  signed by its National Leader, Chairman, Secretary and Assistant Secretary; Akintade Abiodun, Opeyemi Suleiman, Ajimatanarareje Feyisayo, and Taofeek Hassan respectively, said the protest would last for seven  days. The association lamented that on a daily basis, its  members  lose half of their  income to the motor park boys, adding that they paid  exorbitant charges in the garages and at every bus stop where they either  drop off or  pick up passengers. The statement read: “We  have been sentenced to the extortion and violent harassm...