The Minister of State for Transportation, Sen. Gbemisola Saraki, has said that only duly registered road transport unions would benefit from the Federal
Government’s N10 billion intervention fund for road transport workers and operators.
Saraki stated this on Tuesday when the National President, National Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association (NACTOMORAS), Alhaji Muhammed Sani Hassan, led its members to visit her in Abuja.
She, therefore, tasked the executive council to ensure its members were duly registered as only properly registered road transporters would be considered for the palliative.
Saraki appreciated the association for the visit and called for synergy among transport stakeholders to drive the sector.
She assured the delegation of the Federal Government’s commitment to assist transport associations, unions and instill sanity in the sector through a regulatory framework.
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Saraki, noted that her ministry was aware of the role tricycle and okada operators play in the transport sector.
The National President of NACTOMORAS in his remark implored the minister to give the transport operators and owners a special consideration in the disbursement of the intervention fund.
Sani said that members of the association were the most affected by the pandemic, noting that the pandemic stripped members of their little savings due to the stay-at-home order of the Federal Government to curb the spread of the virus.
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