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Lagos State Government Reinstates Oluomo-Led NURTW, Dissolves Park And Garages Committee

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September 9, 2023

The dissolution was made on Friday after the state government lifted the indefinite suspension placed on NURTW barely one year and a half ago over internal leadership wrangling between members.

The Lagos State Government has dissolved its Park and Garages Committee to allow the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW to manage activities across motor parks and garages in the state.

The dissolution was made on Friday after the state government lifted the indefinite suspension placed on NURTW barely one year and a half ago over internal leadership wrangling between members.

It is also coming 24 hours after the former Lagos State Parks and Garages Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly called MC Oluomo, publicly returned to the NURTW with thousands of his members in the state.

Days ago, he had led his Parks Management Committee to Abuja where he also mobilised some thugs to be on standby in case the ruling of the Presidential Election Tribunal did not favour President Bola Tinubu.
SaharaReporters had gathered that the hoodlums mobilised by MC Oluomo to Abuja include members of the Lagos State Committee.

In a video clip obtained by SaharaReporters, MC Oluomo alongside others had also occupied the NURTW office in Abuja.

MC Oluomo, notorious for reckless comments, has publicly described himself as being owned by Tinubu.

In October 2018, MC Oluomo, in an Instagram post, said Tinubu owned him and the APC and that whatever he (Tinubu) wanted was what he (MC Oluomo) would support.

The decision to dissolve the LASPG was approved by the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who was said to have instructed the Ministry of Transportation to dissolve the committee and return the NURTW.

The Transport Permanent Secretary also lauded the executives of the Lagos State Parks and Garages Committee for holding forth while urging the union to maintain peace and operate within the ambit of their constitution as they commence transition back to NURTW.