Coronavirus: Transport Group Seeks FG Grant

A transport group, Indigenous Transport Owners Association Of Niger Delta ( ITOAND) has apealed for support in form of grant from the Federal Government to enable them survive under the lockdown occasioned by the ravaging coronavirus pandemic.
President of the association, Prince Emmanuel Ogba, made the appeal yesterday in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt.
Ogba said that the association members were thrown out of business for about one month , a situation that has unleashed so much hardship to their families.
“ It is almost one month we have been out of business and our members and their families are suffering, we appeal to the Federal Government to help us with grant as being done to transporters in other countries.
“ The lockdown in the country affects mainly inter-state transporters following the border close by various state Governments in Niger Delta region.
“ With the grant, our members would be able to provide for their families. Please let the Federal Government help us . Hopefully, the situation will be normal and we will bounce back to our businesses as inter-state transporters playing strategic economic roles in the country”.
He commended the federal and state governments for the efforts they are making for citizens of the country to survive during this trial period.
He urged Nigerians to cooperate with government by adhering to all directives, stressing that the Coronavirus pandemic period was a global issue that will not last forever.
The ITOAND President however appealed to the security agancies involved in implementing the lockdown not to make things more difficult for suffering citizens of the country by extorting them.
“ An average Nigerian family is facing so much difficulties , for the security agancies supervising the lockdown to begin to extort them is the height of wickedness”, he said.

Chris Oluoh