Transport costs: Cross River may miss Tinubu’s October 1 deadline – Commissioner 

Cross River State is improbable to meet the October 1, 2026, deadline acceptable by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for each authorities governments to drastically trim proscription costs wrong their states and betwixt states.

Recently, the President directed each states to leverage compressed earthy state (CNG) provisions to trim the outgo of intra- and inter-city proscription for citizens.

However, erstwhile Commissioner for Transportation successful Cross River State and the existent Commissioner for Information, Pastor Ekpenyong Cobham, has expressed uncertainty implicit the state’s quality to instrumentality the statesmanlike directive.

In an interrogation with our analogous successful Calabar, Cobham stated that fluctuating vigor costs had hampered efforts by the authorities authorities to trim the outgo of nationalist transportation.

Cobham disclosed that the authorities had invested successful CNG and electrical vehicles arsenic alternatives to accepted vehicles successful a bid to trim proscription costs, but said the program whitethorn not beryllium realised soon.

He disclosed that the capitalist who initially won the bid to grip some the CNG and electrical conveyance components of the task had commenced conveyance assembly astatine the Fabrication Academy successful Calabar, but the task was aboriginal stalled.

“As a result, we ...