Touts under the guise of National Union of Road Transport Workers at the Warri Main garage are demanding controversial sums of money from commercial motorcyclists popularly known as Okada with the pretence of helping them get tricycles purchased by the Delta State government, Fresh Angle can exclusively report.
Our Senior Correspondent who was on a disguised mission to the garage on Thursday September 27 reports that the amount requested from the motorcyclists by the touts are N1,300 for registration, N 10,000 for union dues and N10,000 to be sent to Delta State Ministry of Transport before tricycles will be released to them.
A commercial motorcyclist, Mr. Blessing Ikuku who spoke to Fresh Angle on the development said the touts asked him to go straight to Ecobank adjacent to Warri Main garage to get a deposit slip after which he will come to collect an account number where he will deposit the money , a condition which was not okay by him but the touts insisted.
Fresh Angle scooped that the touts also told the commercial motorcyclist that if he cannot pay the sum of N200,000 for the tricycle as announced by the State government, he should deposit the sum of N50,000 and he will be given a tricycle on hire-purchase with the hope that he pays N1,000 daily till he completes the N 200, 000 .
The tout who refused to disclose his name told Our Senior Correspondent to vacate the Warri garage when he demanded for the controversial account number.“ We dey help una, una dey think say person wan eat una money,” he retorted.
Efforts to speak with the NURTW branch chairman of Warri Main garage were unsuccessful as Our Senior Correspondent was told that he had not resumed.
An aide to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan who would not want his name in print in a telephone chat denied knowledge of the amount being demanded by the NURTW touts in Warri Main garage, stressing that he is not aware of any Ecobank account where motorcyclists are expected to pay in installment before having tricycle from the state government. According to the aide, he is only sure of the payment of N200,000 to the state government before the tricycles will be released to beneficiaries.
It will be recalled that the state commissioner of transport, Mr. Ben Ibakpa had told protesting commercial motorcyclists in Warri that the state government will give each tricycle to beneficiaries at the rate of N200,000, why 7,000 jobs will be created for them in the area of ticketing, driving and training as tricycle mechanics.
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