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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Abia drivers to get security numbers By Vincent Ujumadu Wednesday, August 11, 2004 UMUAHIA—COMMERCIAL vehicle and motorcycle operators in Abia State are to be provided with security numbers as part of measures by the state ministry of housing and transport to check criminal activities among the operators. Commissioner for Housing and Transport, Chief Toni Ururuka told newsmen on Tuesday that the state executive council (Exco) and the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) have approved the exercise. According to him, officials of the transport unions would recommend their members who would qualify for the special numbers to be conspicuously written on the vehicle and motorcycle plate numbers and agrements already designed for motorcycle operators. He said that for commercial vehicles, the numbers would be written on special stickers to be pasted on those vehicles. He explained that although a group of motorcycle operators was already opposed to the identification exercise, his ministry was going ahead with it because “we have found out that the group is made up of criminals camouflaging as motorcycle operators.” Each motorcycle operator, he stated, would pay a processing fee of N1000. The commissioner also explained that his ministry has embarked on the review of traffic laws in the state, adding that the review would out-law the use of mobile telephone while driving, make provision for first aid box in commercial vehicles and motorcycles, recommend a uniform colour for them, out-law the sale of alcohol in motor parks and permanently check the habit of causing obstruction on roads in the state. Ururuka said that a three-day safety-on-the-road campaign would kick off on Monday next week at Ohafia, the following day at Umuahia and end in Aba on Wednesday, pointing out that the decision to mount the campaign in the three zones of the state was the discovery that most of the accidents were mainly due to ignorance on the part of road users.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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