THE present state of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) fleet is a cheerless commentary on the nation's poor maintenance attitude to public utilities and it best illustrates the often-touted truth that government could be bad managers in business.

Barely six years after Lagos commuters expressed relief with the introduction of the BRT scheme, many of the bright red and blue buses have been badly altered and left to deteriorate into first-grade Molues - the rickety buses infamously referred to as a 'moving morgue'.