The Chairman Tricycle owners Association in Jos North local Government of plateau state, Fatima Gindiri has lauded Governor Caleb Mutfwang for prioritizing revenue generation and willingness to fight insecurity in the state.
As she said the steps taking by His Excellency governor Caleb Mutfwang to digitalize the activities of Tricycles operators operating in the state, especially Jos Master plan, aside helping to boost revenue generation for the state government through seamless collections of revenues, it would held to reduce crime and criminality perpetuate by some riders pretending to be tricycle operators.
The Chairman stated this in an interview with journalists during the flag-off of the lntergrated Tricycle Transport Management System (ITTMS),held at the Conference Hall Ministry of Works , Plateau State Secretariat on Wednesday 13th December 2023.
She decried the high rate of criminals hither to hiding under the guise of the membership of tricycle riders in the state,using it to commit crime instead of generating income to improve their lives and that of their family which is met for,but give the association and legitimate operators bad image, so with the government new initiative, it would be much easier to fish out the bad eggs Within the system.
She further lamented that many innocent people have been killed by these criminals using tricycle aka Keke NAPEP as decoy to carry out their naferiou activities, while some who were lucky enough ,is not without loosing valuable in the process like money and handsets.
Stressed that with the digitalization of the operation, it will help to reduce those ugly experiences if not totally eradicated as all the operators of tricycle in the state will have their bio-data uploaded into a database which will make it easier for any operator to be tracked when the need be.
She further add that the government initiative will also help to improve the revenue of the state because the government have now know the numbers of Tricycles operating in the state through the database and can monitor the system identify those of them that are defaulting in the payment of government revenue.
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