‘Bus conductors to get insurance cover’

As part of efforts to sanitize and make the bus conducting vo­cation attractive and safe, conductors throughout the country are to be in­sured.

President of the Bus Conductors’ Association of Nigeria (BCAN), Com­rade Israel Ade Adeshola, said this in Ibadan while speaking with journalists.

He said the insurance cover is coming under what he called ‘Skill Ac­quisition and Empower­ment Programme” of the association.

Said he: “We have con­cluded arrangements to get all the conductors in the country insured, be­cause of the nature and high risk the bus conduct­ing job entails”.

The BCAN president said the job of bus con­ducting is a very risky job, which adequate measures must be taken to ensure the safety of the conduc­tors.

He cited various in­stances where conductors had been killed by some trigger happy policemen without any compensa­tion paid to their immedi­ate family.

“For instance, in 2012, a conductor was unjustly killed in Ketu, Kosofe Lo­cal Government Area by a policeman while perform­ing his legitimate duty over argument of N20”, he said.

The BCAN president said the association took up the matter and peti­tioned appropriate au­thorities, lamenting that up till now nothing has been done about it

“Right now the associa­tion is taking care of the only son of the late con­ductor including the wid­ow. It is in consideration of all these that the asso­ciation decided to come up with the insurance policy for the conductors”, he stated.

Source: daily Times