Akwa Ibom Bans Sale Of Tickets, Emblems To Tricycle Operators

The Akwa Ibom Government on Tuesday banned the sale of tickets and emblems to tricycle operators in the state.
The ban which was issued by the Commissioner for Transport, Mr Godwin Ntukudeh, would last for one week from Jan. 21.
Ntukudeh said that the ban was necessitated by growing complaints and protests by tricycle operators over multiple purchases of tickets, emblems and multiple payment of taxes.
“On behalf of Akwa Ibom State Government, I wish to announce that from today, sale of tickets and emblems to tricycle operators in Uyo, Itu, Uruan, Ibesikpo and Ibiono Ibom Local Government Councils have been banned.
“By this ban, tricycle operators should ignore any form of ticket or emblem issued from the unions until Tuesday, 28 January when all the issues relating to ticketing and charges on tricycles must have been resolved,” the commissioner said.
Ntukudeh said that tricycle operators in Uyo had protested the multiple sale of tickets by Local Government Councils that make up Uyo, the state capital.
The Chairman of Tricycle Operators Union in the state, Mr Udoh Johnson, told NAN that operators were compelled to buy tickets in all the Local Government Areas that make up Uyo.
He said that they also bought emblems at N2,000 from all the five Local Government Areas of the capital city.