Gov Alia slashes fare of PWD by 50 percent in state owned transport company – GM

By Peter Duru, Makurdi

Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue authorities has directed the state-owned proscription company, Benue Links Nig. Ltd to slash the fares to each routes by 50 per cent for Persons With Disabilities, PWDs.

The General Manager of the company, Comrade Alexander Fanafa, who made this known play successful Makurdi said the Governor’s directive took contiguous effect.

This motion came conscionable a fewer weeks aft the Governor besides signed into instrumentality and domesticated the Disability Act successful the state.

The General Manager noted that since the coming of the contiguous administration, “the Governor has been responsive and proactive successful attending to the proscription needs of the radical of Benue and by extention Nigerians who patronise and bask the services of the company.”

He stated that the Governor Alia-led medication addressed the perennial flooding of the company’s headquarters, by constructing a culvert and drainage, arsenic good arsenic German-flooded and asphalted the premises.

He said “the institution besides look the situation of a deficiency of vehicles. It was lone the vehicles that radical leased to america that was sustaining the institution astatine the time. The Governor, successful his magnanimit,y donated 100 buses to the institution successful November 2023. And we person continuously sustained those 100 buses, bought 10 further buses and 10 Sedan cars for taxi services to adhd to that fleet.

“We did not halt astatine that point. We cognize that determination are different Nigerians who enactment with america but person carnal challenges and look difficulties. The Governor directed that we trim our proscription fare for each Persons With Disabilities who travel to question with Benue Links. They are fixed the privilege to wage lone 50 percent of our transport fare.

“They are besides granted preferential attraction erstwhile they privation to question with our vehicles. This acquisition is to guarantee that the PWDs are besides fixed a consciousness of belonging successful the nine arsenic acold arsenic the proscription strategy is concerned.”

He explained that the institution had besides influenced the downward reappraisal of fares by autarkic transporters successful the authorities with its debased fares and fig of vehicles connected its fleet.

The General Manager said the institution had besides recruited implicit 110 caller drivers with the supervision of Vehicle Inspection Officers, VIO, and FRSC officials to boost its manpower and besides ensured that its unit person N75,000 minimum wage portion retirees get their gratuity without delay.

He lauded Governor Alia for tranforming the transport assemblage to interaction the lives of the radical saying the institution presently covers 35 states including Abuja portion it would soon resume the Ekiti authorities route.

He stated that the ongoing translation of the institution besides led to the instauration of online bookings for selected routes portion the institution besides commenced haulage and courier services, with the 3 trucks the Governor donated to it and the further procured by the company, aft obtaining the indispensable certification to commence the service.

He disclosed that the company’s intracity transport services had helped cushion the effect of substance subsidy removal connected civilian servants successful the authorities superior assuring that Governor Alia was giving precedence attraction to the transport assemblage to guarantee the seamless question of individuals, goods and services astatine minimal cost.

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