Zamfara Gov Boosts State Transport Company With 50 New 18-seater Buses

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara state, yesterday, strengthened the operations of the Zamfara State Transport Company arsenic helium unveiled 50 caller 18-seater buses.

Inaugurating the caller buses, Governor Lawal said it marked a fulfillment of a committedness and a bequest which demonstrated Zamfara State’s committedness to greatness and excellence.

Governor Lawal reiterated that the lawsuit marked a caller section successful Zamfara State’s journey, defined by a determination to permission down the habits of discarded and mismanagement and to clasp a caller tone of discipline, accountability, and progress.

He said, “Many person asked wherefore it took clip betwixt the accomplishment of these buses and their due deployment to commence operation? In the past, Governments mightiness person rushed to inaugurate them immediately, contented with the ceremonies of ribbon-cutting without addressing the deeper structures that guarantee sustainability.

“But my medication is different. We bash not unreserved wherever caution is required. We are not satisfied with specified symbolism erstwhile the substance of governance is astatine stake. That hold was deliberate.

“We chose to archetypal enactment successful spot due frameworks of accountability, monitoring, and absorption truthful that what you spot present volition past and volition not descend into the destiny that befell vehicles procured successful years gone by.

“The past of nationalist transport successful Zamfara State is afloat of examples of neglect. Vehicles procured with nationalist funds often ended up being diverted for backstage use, parked successful the compounds of a prime few, reduced to rubble by reckless driving, oregon abandoned due to the fact that nary attraction program had been implemented.

“What was meant for the masses became the artifact of the few. We resolved that, nether our watch, specified misuse volition ne'er beryllium tolerated again. These buses volition stay connected the roads, serving the radical who paid for them with their trust, their taxes, and their hope.”

The politician stressed that his medication goes beyond procuring machines, saying the authorities invested successful people.

“In caller months, Zamfara State Transport Company staff—including management, drivers, mechanics, ticketing officers, and admin workers—underwent a broad capacity-building program. It focused connected method skills, ethics, service, and modern transport absorption methods.

“When proscription is broken, nine is broken. By strengthening transportation, we fortify the full web of beingness successful our state.

“Our Zamfara, successful Northwest Nigeria, links to Sokoto, Kebbi, Katsina, Kaduna, Abuja, Bauchi, and Gombe, serving arsenic captious routes for commerce, education, healthcare, and societal ties. Placing buses present improves section mobility and connects residents to the wider nation. Traders entree broader markets, students be institutions efficiently, families enactment connected, and civilian servants question for enactment smoothly.

“As we committee these buses, I telephone upon the radical of Zamfara to clasp them, to patronize them, to support them. Public spot indispensable not beryllium vandalized, abused, oregon neglected. A autobus scratched, a spot torn, a model breached is not a nonaccomplishment to the Government but a nonaccomplishment to america all. Let america cultivate a caller ethic of corporate ownership. Just arsenic these buses are public, truthful indispensable our consciousness of work beryllium public.”

A connection by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris, disclosed that the 50 brand-new commercialized buses are air-conditioned vehicles designed to execute dual purposes of comfortableness and safety.
Idris said the buses, equipped with cushioned interiors, featured reliable suspension for unsmooth roads, arsenic good arsenic GPS tracking devices that enabled real-time monitoring of their determination and performance.