Legislators at the Adamawa State House of Assembly have enacted a bill for a law to establish the State Transport Board and Management saddled with the responsibility of piloting the affairs of International Transport Services.
If assented to by Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, and subsequently implemented by the government, the state will have a befitting office accommodation, standard motor park and vehicles that will convey passengers to various countries.
Aside the international services, the new legislation is designed to establish a board to provide management, operation that will ensure urban, intra and inter state services across Nigeria.
The passage of the bill tagged, " a bill for a law to provide for the establishmemt of Adamawa State Transport Board and to provide for the management, operation of Urban, Intra State, Inter-State and International Transport Services" followed the considerastion of a report presented by the Vice Chairman House Committee on Transport, Rural Infrastructure and Community Development, Hon. Adwawa Donglock (Guyuk Constituency).
Earlier, the committee told the House that the board's edict which is the current law guiding the operation of the State Transport Company which the new bill sought to repeal has become obsolete in view of trends in the global transportation sector.
According to the committee, due to inadequacy of the law regulating the affairs of the current transport board, it performance was greatly hampared, saying that majority of the staff of the board are daily pay or temporary workers, and that their situation negatively affected the output of the company.
A copy of the report which was obtained by NEWS PLATFORM added that the company is currently operating on the basis of generate and consume without a clear cut revenue sharing formula between the company and the state government.
It observed that most of the vehicles being operated by the company are privately owned, and that the company has very few vehicles in its fleet, lamenting that major private investors are sceptical in investing in the company due to absent of standard regulatory law that will secure their investments.
The Committee told the Committee of the whole that the new legislation will would no doubt reinvigorate the company to generate revenue for the state and create more employment opportunities, and appealed to the hallowed chamber to read it for the third time.
After the passage of the bill on Wednesday, the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, however directed the Clerk to prepare a clean copy of the bill and transmit same to Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri for assent.
No comments:
Post a Comment