From Gyang Pam, Yola
Tricycle operators were shocked penultimate Wednesday on the eve of
Christmas when the Adamawa State government in a terse statement
banned their use for the period of the yuletide season.
Reason as given by the Chief media officer to Governor James Bala
Ngillari Mr. Phineas P. Elisha said this was due to the prevailing
security reasons in the state.
The statement however appealed for understanding, cooperation among
the citizenry especially the law abiding citizens that the ban would
affect.
In a related development both the police and the 23 Bde of the
Nigerian Army have also stressed on the ban on Keke Napep, trolleys
and wheel barrows from the 24th December till the 27th of December
2014.
Both statements signed by captain Nuhu Ja’afaru for the Brigade
Commander and Othman Abubakar (DSP) for the Police Commissioner, says
the security agencies are going to enforce the order and therefore
urged all to comply.
In the meantime, operators of the Keke NAPEP and Wheel Barrow pushers
have condemned the action of the government to ban their operations.
Sunday Tizhe, a KEKE NAPEP rider who spoke to Newsmen observed that
the action of the government is compounding the plight of the ordinary
citizens who are finding it difficult to cope with life since the
emergence of the present administration.
He described the ban as an attempt to worsen the insecurity problem in
the state by keeping the youths, who constitute 90% of Keke NAPEP
Operation out of job.
