Leaders of the Commercial
Motorcycle Riders Association at Omu-Aran in Kwara State recently, impounded no fewer than 30 motorcycles for allegedly violating the union’s regulations.
The Chairman of the union in the town, Mr Sunday Obee, made the disclosure when he spoke with newsmen at Omu Aran in the Irepodun local government area.
He said that the union had no option than to embark on the clampdown to save its image from being tarnished.
The impounded motorcycles were handed over to the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Divisional Officer in Omu-Aran, Mr Sunday Salami, for safe keeping.
Obee said the union had to take the action after series of appeals and persuasions for members to desist from operating contrary to the union’s rules and regulations.
He said that incessant cases of road crashes most of which were attributed to human error had given serious concern to the union leaders.
“This is what actually prompted the union leaders to embark on the impounding of motorcycles found to have violated the union’s laid down rules and regulations.”
Obee accused some members of flagrant disobedience of the union’s rules by intentionally disfiguring their motorcycle parts from their original forms and illegally raising the full light and mirrors.
He said that the leaders had evolved various measures, aimed at educating the members on the need to abide by the union’s rules, traffic rules and other regulations.
“We have never relented in our responsibility of educating members on the A to Z of the union, in order to achieve a crash free operation,” Obee said.
The leader of the enforcement task force, Mr Jimoh Buoye, said that a disciplinary committee had been set up.
Buoye, who is also the association’s Zone U Chairman, said the essence of enforcing the penalty was to serve as a deterrent to other would be offenders.