NAN-H-70
Device
By Taiye Edeni
Abuja, Sept. 29, 2016 (NAN) The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) says it cannot kick against government’s enforcement of the use of speed limiting devices by commercial drivers.
Its National President Alhaji Najeem Yasin, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.
NAN reports that the Federal Government has fixed Oct.1 as the deadline for the commencement of enforcement of the speed limiting device in the country by the FRSC.
Yasin, however, stated that the major challenge drivers expect with the policy is the cost of the device since importers of the device are insisting they cannot sell below the proposed price of N30, 000.
“We cannot kick against the government policy; we have been educating our members on how to comply with it.
“It is a government policy and as law-abiding citizens, we cannot say we will kick against whatever the government has decreed.
“The price is too much and that is what we have been complaining about; but the importers said that is how they imported them.
“Everybody knows what the economic situation in the country is like and that is why we are complaining that the price is high,’’ he said.
Commenting on the state of roads in the country, the NURTW national president stated that if the drivers complain that the roads are bad, it means they know the condition of the roads better than other motorists. (NAN)
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Edited by David Onilede/Controlled by Emmanuel Yashim
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