NURTW Petitions Urban Development Over Roadside Traders

The National Uion of
Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Mile three park branch has raised alarm over the activities of roadside traders within the Mile three park area, which the union said has constituted security threat to the motor park.
To that end, the union has sent a petition to the Rivers State Ministry of Urban Development and Physical Planning for prompt intervention to the matter.
Speaking in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt, the secretary of the union, Mr Cyril Amadi said that some known area boys have turned the bustop to their trading post.
He said that the structures have also become their meeting point  from where they carry out notorious activities of bag snatching and picking pockets of innocent passengers.
Apart from the above, the NURTW scribe also said that these people have broken down some portions of the Mile three park fence and have been using such broken part of the fence to gain entrance into the motor park, even at odd hours when the park gate was closed for business.
Giving the security situation in the country, Mr Amadi stated that it has become necessary for action to be taken so as to stop miscreants from destroying government property.
He therefore urged the authorities of the Urban devleopment ministry, to wade into the situation to sanitise the area, adding that several reports have come to  the union’s office about some passengers whose properties and monies were snatched at that point by these group of gangsters.

 
Corlins Walter