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APCOMA Plans ID’s For Tricycle Operators
The Akwa Ibom Professional Commercial Motorcyclists Association (APCOMA), whose members have switched to tricycle operation, said it would provide identification code to all members.
The former commercial motorcycle operators in the state took to commercial tricycle operation after the state government’s ban on commercial motorcycles in Uyo, the state capital, in July.
The government, instead, provided credit facilities for interested members of APCOMA to acquire tricycles, which the government approved as acceptable means of transportation to cushion the effect of the ban.
The President of APCOMA, Mr Udo Okpon, said in Uyo, Sunday, that the association had already procured more than 200 tricycles for its members, through the state government’s arrangement.
Okpon, who is also the immediate past Special Assistant to Governor Godswill Akpabio, on commercial motorcycle operations, said that since the ban on commercial motorcycles was enforced, armed robbery and other criminal activities in Uyo had reduced considerably.
“We want to give identification codes to all tricycle operators to identify all genuine operators. The exercise will ward off criminal elements from our fold.”
He said that so far, a total of 5,226 persons had registered with the association as members and announced that interested members would be given loans to acquire vehicles for commercial purpose.
Okpon said that “as soon as the state government releases the N1 billion it promised to give the association to cushion the effect of the ban, members will be given commercial vehicles.”
Meanwhile, some microfinance institutions and other businessmen in the state had, since the ban on commercial motorcycle business was enforced, gone into importation of tricycles for commercial transportation.
Similarly, owners of abandoned vehicles have refurbished them and put them on the road as taxis.
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