Lagos: LAMATA prohibits carrying of heavy luggage on regulated buses

Lagos State Government has announced a prohibition connected the proscription of goods and dense luggage connected each regulated nationalist transport buses operating wrong the state.

The directive is acceptable to instrumentality effect from June 1, 2026.

The announcement was made on Tuesday by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, done its Head of Corporate Communication, Kolawole Ojelabi.

According to LAMATA, the determination was prompted by expanding complaints and operational difficulties arising from the usage of regulated buses for carrying goods and bulky items, a signifier the bureau said has negatively affected rider comfort, safety, and wide work efficiency.

The authorization explained that the directive was agreed upon during a strategical engagement betwixt LAMATA and operators of autobus companies, including heads of operations and attraction units, wherever stakeholders resolved that the signifier indispensable beryllium discontinued and restructured to guarantee a much businesslike and sustainable transport system.

LAMATA stressed that enforcement of the prohibition would beryllium strict and uncompromising.

It warned that immoderate autobus operator recovered violating the directive by transporting goods during the enforcement play would look contiguous dismissal and blacklisting.

The bureau further stated that immoderate terminal oregon crushed staff, including LAMATA personnel, recovered assisting ...