The Lagos State Government has announced that it will enforce a ban on all unregulated commercial bus operations, including danfos and koropes, along the Lekki-Epe corridor.
This enforcement is scheduled to begin on October 1, 2024.
The State Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Oluwaseun Osiyemi, and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Sola Giwa, while speaking to Vanguard called for the cooperation of all public transport bus operators, including korope and danfo drivers.
The duo emphasised that the initiative aligns with the Lagos State Strategic Transportation Master Plan, noting that a stakeholders’ meeting had been previously held with bus operators and union leaders to discuss the need for compliance ahead of the implementation date.
Giwa stressed that bus operations along the corridor have been chaotic, calling for collaborative efforts to successfully regulate and integrate the informal transport sector into the state’s bus reform initiative, using the Lekki-Epe corridor as a pilot project.
The Lekki-Epe corridor has been inspected by the Ministry of Transportation and the Lagos Metropolitan Transport Authority (LAMATA) to identify obstacles to seamless traffic flow.Planned solutions include restructuring the existing unregulated public transport bus operations on the Lekki-Epe corridor, deploying high-capacity buses as outlined in the Lagos Transport Policy and the Bus Route Network, reallocating and relocating korope and mini-buses to inner routes, and re-registering and recertifying all buses.
