NURTW Laments Dwindling Business At Motor Parks

The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has lamented the downward trend of transport business noticed at the motor parks in Port Harcourt, particularly at the Abali Motor Park in Port Harcourt.
Speaking in a chat with The Tide in Port Harcourt, the chairman of the Abali Park branch of NURTW, Chief Bethel Dappa, said that the activities of those operating unauthorised motor parks within the area have grossly affected transport operations at Abali Park.
According to him, “passengers no longer troop to Abali Park, as before. The motor park is almost dead because passengers go outside to board vehicles and what we have now is just a residual of what is left from the illegal motor parks”.
Dappa described the park as almost dead saying that the place has been taken over by food vendors with every corner of the park having a good number of those selling cooked food and hawkers.
Meanwhile, taskforce from the Environmental Sanitation Authority has raided the Mile Three Motor Park in Port Harcourt of unserviceable and abandoned vehicles at the park.
Also at the same motor park, police from the Nkpolu Police Station have raided the park and arrested all unauthorised traders and hawkers.
This follows a petition from the NURTW over the activities of illegal operators and dumping of unserviceable vehicles at the park.
Secretary of the NURTW in mile three, Comrade Cyril Amadi, told The Tide that the police have already started impounding vehicles that head outside the motor park so as to bring sanity to the park, adding that all they are doing is to bring sanity to the motor park.