The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of the Lagos Bus Services Limited (LBSL), Idowu Oguntona, has said that buses operated by the company transported 52 million people in five years.
This is as the state Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, commended the company for its efforts in transforming the transportation landscape of Lagos.
A statement on Monday noted that the Commissioner gave the commendation on Friday during a fitness walk and health check organised by the company for its staff as part of activities to mark five years of operation in the state.
Oguntona disclosed that the company had so far covered over 27 million kilometres and constantly provided mobility for 60,000 Lagos residents on daily basis.
The Managing Director, who revealed that the transport company had so far transported more than 52 million people in five years, said that Lagos residents should expect a wider coverage of the operations of the company in the coming years.
Speaking further, the MD said, “In keeping in line with the vision of President Bola Tinubu on a clean and green economy, it means that public transportation will be running on clean energy, leveraging the huge gas possibility that we have to power our buses. We have started a pilot with the private sector under the leadership of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority to see how the buses can perform in our environment”.
Last month, the state commissioner for transportation, Osiyemi, during a summit in Lagos, said the state was in support of the Compressed Natural Gas Initiative of the Federal Government.
He said, “Our transport policy would not only guide but would encourage investment in the space of the CNG. We are also very much aware that to make this grow as rapidly as we want, we must encourage the private sector. We will bring comfort to investors”.
