 We're back and time to look at what has been trending in terms of conversations on the social space, like we say, we want to bring them up right here on the breakfast. The first trending story, the road traffic agencies were told to form a task force over the Ojua-Legba Bridge crashes and yesterday we talked about some accident on Ifako Bridge and it involved a tanker and it gave us the opportunity to look at the incidents, the high incidents of heavy duty truck accidents in Lagos state and we went back in time from 2016 to see the headlines that we kept having and how many people had lost their lives you know and headline after headline you know trailer truck crashes into commercial bus trailer truck hits five vehicles three dead you know tanker falls down, crushes car, container falls off and it's been on and on and on and so I think yesterday we what I said was you know the authorities especially the Road Safety Corps need to have a special plan and program for the heavy duty trucks at least in Lagos because there's something wrong and but but this would do a leg bad bridge on its own it's actually famous not missus for falling containers, 40 feet containers and stuff off trailer trucks and what we're told is that the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority and the Federal Road Safety Corps in Lagos State have formed a joint task force to address the incessant truck crashes on that particular Geo-Lagos Bridge as well as other road accidents in Lagos state. The general manager of LASMA Apology Oriagba still at this when he received the new sector commander of FRSC and his team in his office so I hope this is not just a statement but it's something that they actually are going to follow through and I'm happy it's coming now because we talked about it just yesterday morning so it's fantastic so do you like my bridge I'm sure you've talked about it once or twice what will the tax force be doing and what are the people the individual constituents of that tax force doing right now because if you have a duty to perform if you perform it well you don't even need to get to set committees set joint tax force set this and that everybody now talks about just looking at papers car papers and all that I know there's something called road wordiness who checks that how do they even check it these containers go on our roads in a populated city like Lagos without latches they just go there nothing to hold the containers and then these trucks like you said earlier breakdown so much that is alarming what happens why do they break down who checks them whether they are road body you enter a bus and then there's a bus in front of you and the smoke coming from that bus is choking you in another bus behind or another car behind except you have AC and you wind up and all that and then nobody talks about it they talk about road wordiness what kind of road wordiness are you thinking about who do you check and who does this who should check who should make sure that the vehicles on the road are in good condition so that they don't harm other people we lose lives that are not supposed to be lost it's terrible you know you know in understand I mean you have go there it's like we would ask that you know ordinary these these agencies have their work you know they are their roles you know they don't have to form a meeting but well I think at least you're doing something I know that last month doesn't have any legal backing to check your particulars the Japanese EO officer one between Jibo or Balindi and wherever there is traffic kefi street okay air commander one over one two he jumps and then they go there yeah and then they try to I know it's funny and all that but the thing is I think the FRFC has more of a role to check these particulars but they have regulations road safety regulations that have been updated I think 2021 or 2022 you know and if you go through that document there's a lot that they're not implemented they are not there's a lot if you go through it but the thing about it is that if they want to implement it I think maybe 50 percent of people who are driving on roads who stay at home you know yeah but but the thing is you're saying that these guys ordinary they need to do their jobs so they don't have to have a meeting they join committee to but anyway at least they have acknowledged it and they want to do something about in fact the MD or GM of last month hailed in the statement release yesterday hailed his organization yeah for how last month for how it had been rescuing accident victims particularly those involving truck crashes in the state fine mr last month GM fantastic but we don't want there to be victims we want this to be prevented like they say prevention is better than cure but well one one thing he's saying is that um for sequel to the need these are his words to prevent further loss of life and property through truck crashes you know on a drill like by bridge last month has deployed trained officers to be redirecting heavy-duty trucks and tankers from a drill ever bridge article route so that I think is sort of like a sort of solution you know so is it they're not going to use the bridge anymore because the last one that happened was really sad remember the last house like a couple of months ago where the container fell on on a mini mini bus yeah it was it was so sad and including a child and the mother passed on you know so that's really sad but it's also saying that they are the agencies collaborating with agencies like the state ambulance service that's what they should normally do the legal emergency management agency access one name are legal spy and rescue service and nsc dc but that's what they should you said the way regulations that have been updated and all that at some point they told us that if your car broke down on the road there will be a towing van that will take it to the nearest place that it will be safe and maybe a mechanic a mega a mechanics workshop or something somewhere that it will be safe but now it's a nightmare for any legosian to have his car break down on the road because first of all the area boys will come and obtain what they should not obtain ordinarily and then people will come that will tow the van or the car and then you pay through the nose so what happened to the largest so to speak that they were going to give legosians that they will tow your car free of charge to a place where it will be safe and then you'll get a mechanic to come repair it that is not happening anymore so a lot of things in the books are not translated into the physical thing and i don't know whether it's a different realm that the laws exist the regulations exist the things that they need to do exist so if this collaboration will make them sit up no problem but it's it takes more than just coming together to get the job done you know you know that's that's it it takes what are coming together get a job done i had an experience i think on saturday coming from her from i think around them um uh a jar you know bridge you know let me say flyover yeah towards vgc and the vehicle i was in had a fan belt belt issue and you packed this is this is about maybe three p.m four p.m packed just underneath the the the new flyover being constructed at vgc within two minutes what no 30 seconds boys came around and they are make me helpful now wait till they happen ah and they were willing to help you know if i wanted to show that's where we could get a new fan belt to buy and when the driver went to buy the fan belt he rushed to go and call a mechanic who came with his tools and he helped but you know um my security awareness had already kicked in you see my phone i put in the pigeonhole i didn't put in my bag and then the driver's phone i hit it so many when is when i say take your phone unfortunately the car been wound down all the windows have been wound down and he went with a key um a moment is a minute or so three other area boys came around and they were playing i thought they were playing until i heard the sound of a breaking bottle yeah bottle yeah i thought we played until i this you said that you know when accidents happen there i thought i heard the sound of a breaking bottle against the wall i realized that that play i've done something serious one of them was chasing the other with a broken bottle and he was trying to prevent him i said you know what i'm not the reason why there's problem like today i picked my stuff left the car left it and just cross the road to to a filling station at the entrance of vgc and took some fresh air took so fresh air you know these days we have to pick opportunities to be heroes yes uh you know you should be here every time so so these are so and what you're saying is that we've seen on their twitter handle they're saying they are looking for waiting for you know touring truck to help too but you're saying that the real experience of negotiations is that when your vehicles break down these guys ask them to pay them money yeah into their private bank accounts yes it's really sad all right let's let's go on to the next top trending story let's let's talk about transportation and we had something similar yesterday uh a brt bus uh yesterday wednesday um was gutted yesterday when it was gutted by fire uh on ifako bridge in word in world of gudu the bus uh which was on ifako bridge in world so gudu um coming from ianae owaru uh was burning that's by the heavy rain in the morning and that's why we saw that traffic heavy traffic there um we hear that whilst the rain was on men of the state fire service were seen um trying to contain the incident we should get about 10 25 a.m that's why i saw that heavy uh traffic a thousands of motorists coming from k2 island uh from the island rather heading towards k2 iku do amongst other areas or left stranded uh on the bridge you know that's that's all we're told there's a bit more to to this story uh than this because i'm i'm hearing that uh something happened uh and that some community boys you know did something to that particular uh uh bus but we had a commercial a commercial bus driver died you know there was a collision there was a collision between that brt bus and then of course commercial bus and the driver died now the the the the story is that that bus brt was actually set up leaves it was set on fire because of the death of the commercial driver maybe yes downfall like we call it in legal state um it was a head on collision between the brt which is a legal state bus rapid transit uh service it's owned by and embedded by you know company uh under the legal state government um or for the legal state government um that was a difficult the driver we had of the commercial bus some assaulted we some assaulted and twice uh died instantly as a result of loss of control due to over speeding is what some reports are saying okay of course we wait for more but last time i already put out a statement uh they confirmed the accident and they said they are operatives rescued seven passengers with various degrees of injuries when i hear them saying they rescued you know so i wonder did they just go and take them or did they pull them out themselves but that's good um so they've done their preliminary investigation they put out a statement there they've put the blame on the commercial bus driver you know saying that these bus drivers these double drivers do not stop you know do not um slow down do not stop over speeding they don't adhere to speed limit signs erected by government across the state and that that is true okay i i i agree but but just a final one yeah uh the gem of last month um mr reagba you know has worn members of the public particularly area boys or what we call street urchins not to take law into their hands at any accident scene but to allow appropriate authorities to handle the situation so that's what is believed that it's set fire to the priority yeah um on monday i think we talked about mental health and all that um i i understand that some of these people that drive the brt are just people who were down for drivers as well and i wonder how yeah i wonder how the training is so funny the training for these drivers are because they still behave the same way you know when when the brt had an accident with the train just a few weeks ago it was because the the brt bus driver did not stop and the passengers were saying that they kept warning him do not do what you're trying to do do not cross at this moment and he didn't stop he thought he was smart enough and then it resulted in the loss of lives many lives and other people who were injured as well it could have been prevented so we now we now think about okay if you're employing somebody to be a driver so somebody who will be taking people from one destination to the other i mean the name of a government yes yeah so what kind of test do you give them what kind of training do you give them do you evaluate their mental health capacity to to to take some decisions to do what they're supposed to do do they subject them to all these things we're talking about police needing um a evaluation psychiatric evaluation or something we also need the drivers the pilots everybody that is involved in taking care of the lives of people even if it is for a minute okay and i'm not sure these things are done so while they're blaming the damford driver he's dead i'm gone he cannot defend himself i think they should also look into how their own drivers i'm talking about government now how their own drivers behave because sometimes they talk to you anyhow they don't explain to you anything they they they are very rude to you the drivers and even the ticketers and everything in that chain so the government should look into these as well so that some of these things can be avoided i i i i look at them how they the company involved you know they try to do professional things and i think they train them well you see blood is thicker than water at some points because i've used the brt services and um at some point i said to myself maybe the female driver should be allowed to drive all the buses oh you had a different experience from what i had with the female driver but one day i used that service i changed my mind okay none of them should be driving you know so it's sad what what negotiations who will have to grapple with using the public you know uh bus rapid transit services um we have to go um but but also sad that you know these street urchins are able to the fact that we know street urchins government is you know is trying to tell them the you know uh you know tell them to do the right thing we shouldn't be having these this kind of you know thing in our society you know we shouldn't be having if you if you get stuck in traffic in some parts of Lagos even that stretch at night you just have to lock your car and pray to god in Lagos all right we'll take a break and then when we come back we'll delve straight into our new separate review segment stay with us