Stop Attributing Park Managers Nefarious Activities To Us – Oyo NURTW Tells Gov Makinde

LUCKY L. AKRA

The Oyo State National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, has voiced out to debunk the allegation and rumour going around alleging the union of involvement in the breakdown of law and order on Iwo Road and other areas of the state.

According to the Deputy General Secretary of the Oyo State NURTW, Alhaji Suleiman Musa, in the Press statement released on behalf of the Union, he disassociated and denounced the membership and association with Mukaila Lamidi a.k.a Auxiliary and Park Management Service with his boys, who were appointed by the State Governor, Seyi Makinde, with the NURTW. 

Alhaji Musa also disassociated the NURTW from any nefarious activities going on in the state.
In his statement, he said,” the Oyo State NURTW is miffed by the persistent reports labeling the union with Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde’s appointed Chairman of the Parking Management System (PMS) Mukaila Lamidi, popularly called Auxiliary and the Union is once again distancing itself from the atrocities committed by the  individual”. 
The NURTW Deputy General Secretary,  Alh. Suleiman A. Musa, noted that the so called Mukaila Lamidi a.k.a Auxiliary, appointed as Chairman of the notorious Park Managers outfit created by the Oyo State Governor, was expelled from the Union way back in the year 2011 before he was empowered to unleash mayhem on the good people of Oyo State under the guise of running parks for the Government. 

It also emphasized that Governor Seyi Makinde had proscribed the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in the state since 31st May, 2019, hence the Union viewed the persistent reports linking it with the nefarious activities of the Governor’s appointee as highly unacceptable and urged the Oyo State Government to do the needful and call him to order to prevent avoidable clashes resulting in wanton destruction of properties and loss of lives. 

The statement describes the NURTW as a body of law abiding individuals making a living in the transport sector and averse to all forms of violent activities capable of putting their source of livelihood in jeopardy. They stated that the Constitution of the Union was very clear in dealing with identified dissidents or bad eggs like the expelled appointee of the Governor, whose conduct so far had justified the position of the NURTW that such elements should not be accommodated among peace loving members.

The Union equally appealed to the media and the general public to stop attributing the excesses of the ignoble Park Managers Outfit of the Oyo State Government or the nefarious undertaking of its appointed Chairman to the NURTW, which remains committed to promoting and sustaining the peace at all times because the breach of peace would deprive members the opportunity to make a living in the industry.