By Jennifer John
The Imo State Environmental Transformation Agency (Imo ENTRACO) has urged all commercial drivers in the state, especially the BusImo drivers to update their vehicle particulars and driver’s license or risk having their vehicles being impounded.
The General Manager of the Commission, MrNnamdiAnyaehie gave this instruction, while fielding questions from Government House Correspondents who called on him, in view of the protest and withdrawal of services for hours by the BusImo drivers in the capital city of Owerri and its metropolis over what they termed inhuman treatment by officials of Imo ENTRACO.
While positing that most commercial bus drivers in the state don’t have driver’s license, he warned that henceforth, any person caught for the offence of obstruction, which is the only mandate of the Commission in the transportation sector, must show his or her valid vehicle particulars, including driver’s license, before such vehicles will be released”.
Reacting to the compliant of the drivers about incessant harassment and high-handedness of ENTRACO officials and task-forces, Anyaehie described it as corruption fighting back.
He said the state government, on 23rd April, issued a notice that all commercial buses with tinted glasses should remove them within 72 hours and consequently set up an enforcement team, comprising different government agencies, to enforce the directive.
According to the General Manager, instead of complying with the government directive, those affected waited until the enforcement team started clamping down on them, which resulted in the protest, as those affected tried to get others who were not affected to join them in protest against government.
He said what prompted the ban of tinted glasses was the surge of crimes committed with such vehicles, such as; kidnapping, one chance abduction for ritual purposes, organ harvesting, among others.
On the issue of ban on taxforces by the Governor, Anyaehie made it clear that ENTRACO is a Commission that has enforcement unit, not a tax force, and therefore not affected by the ban on task forces.
On the measures to stamp out infiltrators and impersonators among from the Commission, the General Manager disclosed that the Agency will soon roll out new sets of uniforms, with serial numbers, ID cards, to checkmate the use of “those old jackets by impostors”.
He said his leadership was embarking on cleansing in the Commission which has over time been infiltrated by criminal minded individuals, who commit all sorts of crimes with its name, adding that his officials have been arresting such infiltrators, including a recent arrest of one of such infiltrators who happened to be a hardened kidnapper.
“In that case, if any ENTRACO official does anything, all you need do is get the serial number, come to our public complaint unit and that will be taken care of.
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