MC Oluomo allays fears over garages, parks’ takeover

On Tuesday, April 12, the Chairman of the newly formed Parks Management Committee, PMC, Mr. Musiliu Akinsanya, well known as MC Oluomo, told Lagosians that the process of taking over parks and garages in the state was proceeding smoothly.

He, on the other hand, refuted claims that three people were killed on Monday in a battle in Lagos’ Fagba neighbourhood between his members and those of the suspended National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, over an alleged forced takeover of the garage.

In a press conference, Oluomo‘s spokesman, Jimoh Buhari, said that his boss just travelled to see a traditional ruler in the Fagba part of the state on Monday, and that no clashes or deaths occurred.

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He admitted that only a tricycle windscreen was smashed.

Buhari said: “There is nothing like a forceful take over of garages. No crisis broke out in Fabga when MC Oluomo went to visit a monarch in that area. Besides, Fagba is controlled by our people. How would we attack our own people?

“There is also nothing like using guns to take over garages, all we need to do is to write letters informing the operators of our intention. Besides, before now, 95 percent of former NURTW executives in Lagos State, were for MC Oluomo, only a few of them were not.

“However, everybody is welcome in this new process. So, there is no cause for alarm. The area people are anticipating tension is only the Meiran axis. People are just exaggerating.”

Meanwhile, it has been reported that members of the PMC have been meeting to discuss how to take over the state’s garages and parks without the process devolving into chaos.

Some of the previous executives, who were in charge of separate garages, are said to have promised not to hand them over to the newly formed PMC.

Last month, the union’s national headquarters dissolved its Lagos council, suspending MC Oluomo and replacing him with the State Secretary, Seyi Bankole, until the formation of a caretaker committee.