One Chance Robbery: RTEAN Takes Safety Campaign To Higher Level For LASU Students

The resilient, ever-dynamic and innovative leadership of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) LASU Chapel has once again risen to the new challenge being posed by mindless drivers and tricycle (Kẹkẹ Marwa) operators who, in recent times, have re-emerged with their deceptive methods to defraud commuters and and endanger their lives along LASU-Ojo-Iba road by luring, especially fresh, unsuspecting LASU students into their vehicles, Kẹkẹ and then dispossess them of their valuables such as expensive phones, bags and money.

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‌To curb this nauseating vice, the ever responsive Mudashiru Eniafe-led RTEAN has ingeniously devised a new strategy aimed at ensuring an enduring transport management system principally for the protection of commuters dominated by the LASU community on the stretch of the road from LASU Gate through to Ìgandò.

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‌Given the axiom “necessity is the mother of invention, Eniafe, the RTEAN LASU Chapel Chairman and his team launched a security/safety-focused system on Monday, November 17,2025 wherein every registered commercial driver on the axis is now officially designated with a non-replicable identification code visibly inscribed on their RTEAN-customised Identity Card which, of course, must be hanged on the driver’s neck all the hours at work.

This commuter-friendly innovation allows the students and other passengers boarding the buses on the road axis to identify the drivers by name and code so that the students can report any untoward happening to the RTEAN officials for necessary probings and possible disciplinary action that may be warranted.

Speaking on the innovative development, Mudashiru Eniafe told Independentonline that his team had to think outside the box having discovered in recent times, that some wicked drivers (not within the pool of responsible ones known to be regular on the LASU Ìgandò road) had started taking an undue advantage of the innocence of the newly admitted students of the Lagos State University (LASU) by luring the green scholars into their buses or Kẹkẹ pretending to be the normal commercial transporters only to move away from the immediate purview of LASU-based RTEAN and pretend that there’s no more fuel in the vehicle or Kẹkẹ and rob the unsuspecting young LASUITES of their phones, bags and cash.

‌”To curb this menace, we had to think out the current system of codifying every of our registered drivers first, with a displayed identity card; then with a code for each of them readily readable to the students hoarding the bus.

‌”By this, you as a passenger can memorise at least, the code number and report to us should you experience anything untoward from any driver and we then know what to do with whoever is involved”; Eniafe tutored with an aura of confidence and assurance.
‌Recall that since the launch of RTEAN LASU-Iba Branch under the chairmanship of Mudashiru Eniafe about three years ago, the knotty traffic gridlock that had always greeted this axis, especially at event seasons in LASU, has become a thing of history with laudable transport sanity restored to the area.
‌It is not surprising, therefore, that the young Eniafe a Masters degree holder of the LASU School of Transport and Logistics has earned awards via the giant feat achieved by his leadership in converting chaos to peace on the LASU Ìgandò road.