The Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria (BCAN) says that it's member will start wearing uniforms from January 1, 2018 for security and effective service delivery.
Isreal Adeshola, the National President of the association, disclosed this in an interview in Lagos on Sunday.
Adeshola said the operational uniform would bring about sanity to the service in the state and the country as a whole. The association has been able to train a reasonable number of conductors on behavioral change. We started the registrations and training at Lagos State Drivers Institute for attidunal and change in orientation of the members towards 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. Adeshola said that the association is working towards eradicating the manace of using under age as bus conductor across the country. He announced that persons from 18years and above are 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 all Lagos residents that bus conducting is a respected profession like in other western countries where they are respected because they offer humanitarian services. " In Nigeria, people see them as nobody which is not suppose to be so, "he said.
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