Lagos’s truck owners started an indefinite strike on Wednesday (9 September) to protest against the State government restricting truck movement in the city during the day.
The strike followed the Lagos State Government’s warning that it would get tough on any trailer and long vehicle contravening Section 2 of the Lagos State Road Traffic Law 2012, which forbids trailers to travel within the city of Lagos between 6am and 9pm.
The catalyst for the changing attitude towards the enforcement of this law was a fatal accident involving a container-laden trailer which killed three people on September 2 2015.
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