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By Miriam KpereAbasi
The Commissioner for Transport in Akwa Ibom State, Prince Godwin Ntukudeh, has been implored to relinquish interest in interest business.
The charge was handed down by the Chairman of the Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN), Comrade Sunny Ennang, in an interview aired on Planet 101.1 FM.
The TOAN chairman declared that tricycle operators have been exposed to a lot of hardship by the Ministry of Transport's culture of imposing levies such as the daily 'road tax ticket' to operators and the ill antics of the ministry's task force.
Noting that tricycle business was introduced into Nigeria and Akwa Ibom State under the Poverty Alleviation Scheme, Ennang decried that the ministry has hijacked the scheme turning it to a revenue generation affair. "Imagine over 30,000 tricycle operators buying tickets for 200 Naira daily. Just calculate that. The system is not transparent. They don't even give account of all these monies", he lamented.
He also expressed worry over the fact that the 200 Naira daily ticketing is a biased process because other road transport operators like taxi and bus drivers are exempted.
Speaking further, Comrade Ennang noted that TOAN being an industrial union has the right to superintend over the affairs of its members and urged the Transport Ministry to wash its hands off tricycle affairs or risk being forced to do so.
Efforts to get the response of the Transport Commissioner proved abortive as he neither picked phone calls nor replied text messages sent to his mobile phone.
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