Adebayo Padmore, a driver for the Lagos State-owned ride-sharing service LagRide, passed away in the Lekki region of the state.
PUNK According to information obtained by Metro, the event occurred on Monday, January 8, just as Padmore, the National Deputy President of the Amalgamated Union of the app-based transporters of Nigeria, was about to start work.
Speaking with our correspondent on Sunday, union representative Jossy Adaraniwon stated that the dead, a man in his mid-40s, had been checking the engine oil when he fell on the spot.
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The victim was taken to the hospital, where he eventually passed away, according to Adaraniwon, who bemoaned what he claimed to be the unfriendly working conditions of ride-hailing businesses in Nigeria.
“Bayo decided to take some rest in his car on one of the streets in Lekki after working the previous night,” the speaker remarked. He got up at five in the morning to get ready for work and opened his bonnet to check the oil in the engine. He slumped just as he was about to get back into his car. He did not survive despite our colleagues’ efforts to rapidly douse him in water and transport him to a nearby hospital. It was a regrettable event because he continued to participate in our Sunday night Zoom meeting and did not appear to be feeling well.
Adaraniwon disclosed that the hospital’s medical report, which was retrieved, stated that the dead passed away from cardiac arrest, a condition linked to exhaustion and accumulated stress.
He went on to say that there was a connection between Pademore’s passing and the strain he was under at work.
“There’s no denying that platforms such as Lagride, Uber, Bolt, and InDriver have created a hostile work environment that contributed to the great Padmore’s death. These platforms’ high commission, low fares, high daily target, higher asset repayment, lack of healthcare insurance, and anti-workers policy subject platform workers to long workdays, exhaustion, low pay, lack of healthcare, lack of downtime, and struggle to meet daily targets while juggling family obligations and personal needs.”
As a union, we will not back down from our unwavering demand for sufficient regulation and the care of platform workers until success is guaranteed. We demand that Lagos Ride management immediately implement a worker-friendly policy and provide the family of the deceased with the required support and compensation.
It was learned that the dead had been laid to rest on Thursday at his Oyo State hometown.
June 2023 saw the union start a nationwide protest while removing its drivers’ services from the general public.
The drivers claimed that the new gasoline pump prices made it impossible for them to continue working and mentioned that they had previously asked the companies to lower their commissions because they did not correspond to industry benchmark rates.