Chairman of Disciplinary Committee of the Park Management System, Mr Mukaila Lamidi, popularly called Auxiliary, has reacted to claim by former chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW that the PMS is performing their functions.
Nigerian Tribune quoted Auxiliary, as saying that hay the NURTW had been proscribed and was only making an outcry because its members are out of the present management of the parks.
He asked the NURTW to take its agitation to the state government that proscribed it, adding that the PMS was presently running the show at parks and had no reason to foment crisis in the state.
Asked why the PMS totally stifled NURTW members out of parks, Lamidi recalled that he was also out of the management of parks for over eight years and incarcerated for over five years during the past administration but for the present administration that was magnanimous to bring him to reckoning.
Lamidi said: “We are presently running the system. Does anyone in charge also rock the boat? They are outside the system and that is why they are complaining. They are the ones that would not hesitate for what is good to be destroyed.
“I do not know about certain people being in any union house. What I know is that the government has proscribed the NURTW. I am unconcerned; it is government that can take action against them.
“I am doing my job and they constitute no hindrance to me doing my job.
“If they were not proscribed, will the government bring up the Park Management System (PMS)? Why did the government not call it park union?
“How can they demand to partake in the current system?
“Were you not in this town? Don’t you know that we were out of the system for eight years and nine months?
“We have a good governor. If he was like the former governor, he would have chased the likes of us out of this town. But, the present governor wants everybody to do things not affecting the other.
“I was in prison custody for five years and eight months without committing any crime, probably because I am not supporting the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Presently, I am the one at the head of table now and have no reason to foment crisis. If they have issues to trash, they should go to the State Secretariat to meet Governor Seyi Makinde.
“The union has been proscribed. It is up to the government to decide whether they should remain at the said union’s house or chase them out. That is not my business.”
When Nigerian Tribune contacted the Special Adviser to the Oyo Governor on Security, Mr Fatai Owoseni, he tasked all and sundry to remain peaceful, likening trouble to throwing stones into the market where the victims could be anyone.
Owoseni said: “Everybody should remain peaceful. The state has been relatively peaceful and everybody should continue to ensure that it remains relatively peaceful.
“If they make any trouble, do they know who, at the end of the day, will suffer from it? It is like throwing stones in the marketplace.”
