Relocation : No plans to hijack transport unions’ jobs, revenue – Abia Govt 

Abia State Government says it has nary program to hijack the jobs and revenues of transport unions successful the authorities pursuing the relocation of commercialized buses to the Nnenna Otti Central Bus Terminal.

This is successful effect to the anxiousness among immoderate transport operators that the enforcement of operations astatine the cardinal autobus terminal could transportation their regular jobs and revenues to the Abia State Government.

But addressing the property on Tuesday on the result of the Abia State Executive Council meeting, the state’s Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, said that the jobs and revenues of transport operators and their unions person not been taken implicit by the authorities government, arsenic being speculated.

Kanu, who said that the bulk of transport unions successful the authorities are successful enactment of the ongoing relocation to the caller autobus terminal, explained that the fears raised by immoderate of the transporters successful astir 29 centrifugal parks successful Umuahia are presently being addressed.

“We are gathering the transport operators and a fewer of their anxieties volition beryllium addressed soon,” the commissioner said.

Also speaking, Abia State Commissioner for Transport, Chimezie Ukaegbu, dismissed the claims that the authorities authorities was taking implicit the jobs of transport unions and their members, saying that an organised strategy of proscription was introduced to regenerate touting and congestion.

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