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NURTW Moves To Tackle Hoodlums At Abali Park
Henceforth, any com
mercial vehicle driver that discharges passengers outside the Abali motor park by Aba Road in Port Harcourt will be arrested and prosecuted by the Police.
The Chairman, National union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Abali Park Branch, Chief Bethel Dappa dropped the hint in a chat with The Tide correspondent in his office on Monday.
Dappa said the measure was to forestall the incessant snatching of jewelries, cell phones, bags and other valuables from passengers disembarking from vehicles by some hoodlums outside the park and complaints on loss of properties.
He said the park is free and spacious to accommodate vehicles that want to discharge their passengers, stressing that it is free and safe, in order to avoid any act of criminal attacks.
According to him, with the posting of a new District Officer, Supol Gideon Nteberieng there has been sanity, but wants the authority to completely ensure that discharging of passengers outside the park and trading beside the fence of the park attracts appropriate action.
“I want the police to try and ensure that those traders beside the Abali park fence by Aba Road and those that drop passengers by the fence outside the park were sanctioned, arrested and prosecuted as there were lots of complaints on snatching of bags, phones, gold necklesses, money and other properties and goods from passengers at that axis of the road and the park,” the union boss emphasized.
Dappa further noted that there is no charge as it is free for any vehicle that dropped passengers inside the park and called on drivers who are in the habit to stop forthwith or have themselves to blame.
He also warned drivers not to take alcohol or any hard drugs before embarking on any journey and appealed to the police to arrest and prosecute such persons and even those who sell such prohibited goods within the motor parks in the state in order to avoid accident on the road.
The Abali NURTW chairman however disclosed that no fatal accident was reported during the “EMBER” months from any of their member drivers in the park adding that the enlightenment campaigns and sensitization programmes by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state had actually been adhered to and thanked the sector command for a job well done, while appealing for more of such enlightenments.
Collins Barasimeye
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