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Institute Honours RTC Management
Six management staff of the Rivers State Transport Company (RTC) were recently honoured with awards of excellence in mass transit operations in Nigeria by the Management and Technology Institute Aba, Abia State. Those honored include the acting General Manager of the company, Peter Borlo JP, Head of Personnel, Allwell Amakiri, Head of Business Development, Biedima Wariso, Commercial Manager, Mathew Oputa, Head of Operations, Wiston Dublin Green and the accountant of the company, Mrs. Comfort Koko.
Presenting the awards, the Director of Training and Manpower Development of the Institute, Mr Frank Azubuike said the awards were in appreciation of the untiring contributions of the Rivers State Transport Company among other state owned transport companies. He charged the RTC management not to relent in its effort and cautioned against malpractices in mass transit operations through the activities of miscreants known as agboros.
Responding on behalf of the RTC management, the acting General Manager, Peter Borlo JP, expressed deep sense of appreciation to the management of the institute for considering RTC deserving of the awards after an assessment of mass transit operations in the South-South. He said the awardees were co-players in a team of more than 10 persons working together as a family to perfect the mass transit programme established by the Babangida administration in 1988 to halt the exploitative tendencies of the private sector in transport operations. He said RTC since its establishment in 1970 had gone through series of reorganizations and the present management was poised for excellence in transport services through a synergy of efforts.
The general manager also lauded the institute for training various state- owned transport organisations and enjoined them on the regulation of mass transit operations. He said transportation was noble profession which should be managed by transporters and not to be made an all comers affairs.
Managing director, Akomas and Partners , Prince George Akomas (left) listens to zonal secretary, Port Harcourt Zone Shareholders Association, Francis Orji, at a seminar organised by Port Harcourt branch of the Nigerian Stock Exchange at Hotel Presidential. Photo: King Osila
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