Transporter Tasks Govt On Illegal Motor Parks, Touts

The Rivers State
Government has been called upon to urgently flush out all illegal motor parks and touts in Port Harcourt and its environs.
A stakeholder in transport business, Alabo Greg Tubotamuno, who made the call in a chat with The Tide in Port Harcourt said the call became necessary because of the nuisance and criminal activities they perpetrates.
Tubotamuno, who is the Managing Director of Tubo Motors Limited said most illegal motor parks were set up by hoodlums without considering the traffic and convenience of other road users.
He said that it is disheartening to note that such illegal motor parks collect fees in the name of local government council, development levies and membership fees from unsuspecting drivers, where no one knows how all these monies collected were being channeled to.
Tubotamuno also noted that members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and other regulatory bodies encouraged these illegal motor parks, thereby compounding problems and illegality in the city.
According to him, government should recognize and accord priority attention to only approved motor parks by the appropriate authorities, so as to bring sanity, security and free flow of traffic in Port Harcourt and its environs.
Tubotamuno also frowned at the activities of touts who daily embarrass and harass legitimate motorists especially commercial drivers, stressing that the situation had become an eye-sore that if not nipped in the bud would metamorphose to moster and  lawlessness would strive again in the state.
The transporter further called on the government and relevant authorities to take proactive steps in checking the activities of these touts, in order not to paint the good administration of Governor Nyeson Wike black.