NLC Launches Transport Service Scheme

The Nigeria Labour Con
gress (NLC) in Kaduna State has launched another transport service scheme after the crises which crippled a similar one it started in 2007.
Our correspondent learnt that the union was forced to sale off the 20 vehicles it acquired six years ago through the assistance of the state government, due to alleged bad management.
An Ex-officio member of the union, Comrade Shehu Salisu, told our correspondent that the new scheme would avoid the pitfalls of the past which led to the grounding of most of the vehicles before they were finally sold off in July.
According to him, the NLC has acquired five new vehicles for inter state transport services and appointed a seven-member committee to oversee the running of the scheme.
“It will be run purely as a business to generate money for the union”, he said, adding that the five vehicles were bought from union dues.
Comrade Salisu, who heads the seven-man committee, assured that the management problem that led to the collapse of the earlier transport scheme would not reoccur.
He added that the revenue generated from running the vehicles would be used to buy more.