{"id":10825,"date":"2022-02-04T14:27:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10825"},"modified":"2022-02-04T14:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:27:49","slug":"mass-transit-zulum-launches-610-taxis-tricycles-buses-ln-maiduguri-gives-n50m-to-1000-operators-targets-3200-beneficiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10825","title":{"rendered":"Mass Transit: Zulum Launches 610 Taxis, Tricycles, Buses ln Maiduguri \u2026 Gives N50m to 1,000 operators \u2026 Targets 3,200 beneficiaries\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mass Transit: Zulum Launches 610 Taxis, Tricycles, Buses ln Maiduguri<\/div>\n
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\u2026 Gives N50m to 1,000 operators<\/div>\n
\u2026 Targets 3,200 beneficiaries<\/div>\n
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Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has launched 610 taxis, tricycles and buses to enhance urban mass transportation in Maiduguri and parts of Jere and Konduga Local Government Areas which fall under the metropolis.<\/div>\n
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Zulum arrived Maiduguri after his presidential press briefing in Abuja, Thursday, and drove from<\/div>\n
the airport to Ramat Square in Maiduguri, where he launched 610 means of transportation which combine 100 Toyota LE cars for city taxis, 500 tricycles popularly known as \u2018Keke NAPEP\u2019 and 10 Ashok Leyland buses each with capacity for 41 passengers.<\/div>\n
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While the 10 buses were left under the custody of Borno Express Transport Corporation for intracity services, the 500 tricycles were allocated to 2000 operators with each tricycle owned by a group of four unemployed persons. The 100 taxis were also allocated to 200 persons with each to be owned by two, making a total of 2,200, the number of persons who benefited from the tricycles and taxis.<\/div>\n
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Modalities for the distribution were arrived at after Governor Zulum held meetings with leaders of different associations of Keke NAPEP operators who informed the governor that some of their members form groups to own tricycles and they have their ways of jointly managing them and sharing profits.<\/div>\n
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Before Zulum\u2019s launch, the State Commissioner for Transport, Dr. Abubakar Tijjani, assured the governor of effective and efficient supervision to ensure functional deployment to routes in line with the governor\u2019s goal of increasing access to mass transport in the metropolis.<\/div>\n
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On security integrated into the tricycles and taxis, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Bexil Computers & Communications, Yusuf<\/div>\n
Hayatuddeen, said each of the 500 tricycles has digital stickers from which passengers can use smart phones to access essential data of all operators. He also explained that with the stickers, movements of the tricycles will be tracked to ensure each operator only operates within communities they are expected to serve.<\/div>\n
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\u2026 Grants N50m to 1,000 Keke Napep operators<\/div>\n
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Aside the 2,200 persons allocated the tricycles and taxis, Governor Zulum also granted N50m to 1000 members of different Keke NAPEP operators who did not benefit from the launch given the fact that the associations have thousands of members, some of whom either own tricycles or work as riders and spare-riders.<\/div>\n
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The 1,000 persons was to each receive N50,000 as social support.<\/div>\n
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A combine total of 3,200 youths benefitted from the distribution of the tricycles, taxis and grant.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mass Transit: Zulum Launches 610 Taxis, Tricycles, Buses ln Maiduguri \u2026 Gives N50m to 1,000 operators \u2026 Targets 3,200 beneficiaries Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has launched 610 taxis, tricycles and buses to enhance urban mass transportation in Maiduguri and parts of Jere and Konduga Local Government Areas which fall under the metropolis. 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