Nigerian road transporters seek establishment of Bank of Transportation

Stakeholders successful the Nigerian roadworthy transport assemblage person called for the constitution of a Bank of Transportation to thrust concern and improvement of the proscription sector.

Commercial drivers and transport assemblage operators made the telephone during the week-long Drivers’ Care Initiative crossed centrifugal parks successful the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, organized by Transporters for Tinubu 2027.

The telephone was echoed by representatives of the 3 large unions successful the transport assemblage – Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, the National Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, and National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW.

They noted that a Bank of Transportation volition play a akin relation arsenic the Bank of Agriculture and Bank of Industry.

Speaking astatine the outreach held astatine Nyanya Motor Park successful the FCT, Programme Director of the Drivers’ Care Initiative, Mrs Chinwe Uwaegbute said demands made by the drivers during the week-long lawsuit person been noted and would beryllium passed connected to the authorities for indispensable action.

Noting that onshore proscription is the backbone of the economy, Uwaegbute described the telephone for a Bank of Transportation arsenic a cardinal demand.

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