Okada Ban Will Render 30m Nigerians Jobless – Hassan

The national president of Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN), Alhaji Muhammad Sani Hassan, has said no fewer than 3o million Nigerians will be rendered jobless if the federal government implements the proposed nationwide ban of commercial motorcycles by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
Addressing a press conference in Abuja, yesterday, Alhaji Hassan said the Corps Marsha of FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, ought to bury his face in shame and resign his position over policy failure as it concerned road safety in Nigeria, noting that the Corps had never organised any form of training for Okada riders in the country.
“It is unfortunate the way government agencies treat us. They just wake up and come up with policies that affect us without consulting with us. The FRSC has never organised any training for Okada riders; and they just woke one day and said commercial motorcycles should be banned. What is the offence of Okada riders,” he said.
This is even as Alhaji Hassan has the alarm over a faction of ACOMORAN which held an illegal meeting with the minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja last Tuesday.
He alleged that the faction led by one Alhaji Shehu Maihula Babangida unlawfully changed the registered name of the association from Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN) to Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycles Owners, Repairs and Riders Association and adopting its CAC registration number, without due recourse to the Board of Trustees (BoT), an act which he described as criminal.
He, therefore, called on the minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, the Inspector General of Police and the general public from dealing with the Babangida faction as it is a criminal assembly of like minds bent on fomenting and no regards for the law.

Source: Leadership