Help Solve The Challenges Confronting Transport Operators – Transporter To Gov’t.
The Kumasi-Asafo branch Manager of the VVIP Bus operators, Mr Ali Yahaya Mashood has observed that Transport Operators in the country have been playing their roles to improve the transport industry, yet they have been facing with lot of challenges that tend to impede their operations.
Speaking to the correspondent in an interview, Manager Mashood mentioned among others high cost of spare parts, fuel, taxations and electricity bills.
Yahaya Mashood hinted that it is no doubt that the various transport operators in the country have been helping government to solve parts of the unemployment challenges confronting the youth.
Therefore if the prices of the materials used to operate the industry are reduced, it would encourage the transport operators to do more.
We desire to create job opportunities for the youth but we are constrained by the high cost of spare parts, fuel among others, that help us to function well, the transporter observed.
Hence I finds it prudent to humbly appeal to the government to consider the plight of transport operators by a way of coming out with a special packages for them to ensure smooth operations.
The transport industry in the country has a brighter future but before such goals can be achieved would depend on how government would deal with the transporters, Ali Yahaya Mashood noted.
In another development, the Manager appealed to the Managers of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to be proactive and discourage flouting drivers whose activities create vehicular congestions in the city.
Mr Ali Yahaya Mashood particularly mentioned Kumasi Roman Hill where daily congestions are recorded as a result of the activities of the flouting drivers.
It is my wish to draw the attention of the City Managers for action to avoid future incidents that could claim innocent lives of the citizens.
The Manager further took the opportunity to advise drivers to be law abiding and avoid antisocial vices like drunkenness, overspending, overtaking, overloading, phone call and political debates whilst on steer, so as to curb road accidents in the country.
