More Lost-and- Found items in commercial vehicles

Have you ever been in a hurry to deliver urgent document(s), only to forget the parcel in the commercial vehicle you boarded?

Passenger alights leaving behind belongings

As bad as that experience is, it is the situation that a lot of people find themselves today in Lagos.

Concerned analyst says, “With the economy biting harder by the day and people coming closer to poverty and suffering, the possibilities are high for many people to set out in the morning like moving corpses”.

“With the slightest distraction they forget belongings which they probably dropped somewhere in the car, especially the front side of at the driver’s area”.

A driver, Olumide Adeoye said, many people forget their belongings very often these days.

“Once they keep the keep the document, they don’t remember to pick it when they drop. I have seen many of such property in this my car. 

What we do is that, if there is a way to contact the owner, we call him or her on phone to come to a certain place to collect it. But if there are no contacts, we dispose the items”.

According to Adeoye , there is one presently in his custody.

Pointing at the brown hand bag, “here is it. It is a man bag with many documents inside. I will soon discard it because the owner has not shown enough seriousness to pick it up”.

He said, “I have called him (the owner) on phone three times. He hardly had the chance to wait and collect his property. He would call and tell me he was in Ketu or Oworo, but before I get there, he had left. I will throw it away before the end of this Week”.

He advised passengers to always hold their items on their hands to reduce their chances of forgetting them.