. Provides LASU College students Safety Ideas About Unregistered Kẹkẹ Marwa, Use Of Zebra Crossing, Others
LAGOS – Comrade Nurudeen Mudashiru Eniafe, the Zonal chairman of the Highway Transport Employers Affiliation of Nigeria (RTEAN), Ojo Zone 21is proving to the world that certainly, training is a life changer past talking grammar and incomes wage.
Eniafe, one other artistic, self-motivated graduate of the Lagos State College (LASU) has modified the narrative of the hitherto perennially irritating visitors jam on the LASU-Igando axis of the Ìgandò Ìyànà Iba highway ever since he took cost of the administration of the RTEAN zone.
Other than facilitating and sustaining a a lot sane visitors administration on the stated axis, the Eniafe-led present RTEAN department has innovatively added a powerful contact of the Company Duty Service (CRS) which one would have anticipated solely from actual white collar enterprise entities removed from the like of RTEAN.
On this regard, LASU Ojo RTEAN underneath Nurudeen Eniafe, has modified the previous narrative of exploitation to exploration and growth, whereby petty merchants beside the highway round LASU gate who used to run helter skelter in search of cash to tip the RTEAN or different union officers with a view to begin a below-the-line enterprise are actually inspired to throw such a refund into their buying and selling capital for his or her enterprise to continue to grow.
Not solely that, this author did some undercover checks to seek out out that there’s nothing like forceful consumption of products resembling vitality drinks, delicate drinks, groundnuts, biscuits and the like with out paying the sellers. When final did anybody studying this piece get up to the information of agbero fracas amongst themselves or with college students on that axis? That is a powerful turnaround by all requirements. Kudos to the administration of RTEAN underneath LASU-baked Eniafe.
An unique chat with Nurudeen Mudashiru Eniafe reveals that this innovatively bizarre LASU pleasure will not be alone within the drive for secure, safe, seamless and sane driving and commuting alongside the LASU-Iba-Igando highway, however working not solely with the strong help of different RTEAN officers and floor members, but in addition hand in hand with the Divisional Police Officer (DPO). That is instructional software at play.
The Eniafe-piloted RTEAN is presently staging a campaign of consciousness for college students particularly in addition to different commuters on the highway to at all times beware the form of Kẹkẹ Marwa ( industrial tricycle) they board on the axis.
Eniafe gave some safety tips about what to look out for whereas making to board a Kẹkẹ, irrespective of how determined the scenario could seem.
One in every of such options to test is that an genuine and authorised Kẹkẹ will need to have an FRSC-registered quantity plate, not solely within the entrance however extra importantly on the again which is able to facilitate a fast seize of the quantity simply in case a scenario warrants so. It is because it has been found of latest that some ill-intentioned Kẹkẹ Operators work hand in hand with thieves, robbers and tricksters to rob and dispossess harmless younger college students of their telephones, cash and different valuables.
In line with the younger recreation changer, the trick being utilized by such devilish operators is that, first, the Kẹkẹ won’t have a quantity plate on the again; then a well-dressed ‘gentleman’ , normally in company go well with, will sit alone on the again seat whereas one other passenger will sit beside the Kẹkẹ operator thereby seemingly leaving house for at the least two extra passengers.
“It is a booby lure to bait unsuspecting passengers, particularly younger, recent college students on the axis into falling prey to theft and different unimaginable evils. “Shortly after take-off, the Kẹkẹ operator will feign that the gasoline has completed in Kẹkẹ tank an plead with the scholars to assist bend or push the Kẹkẹ. The harmless commuters would oblige, almost certainly leaving their telephones and luggage on the seat of the Kẹkẹ to assist push it, then out of the blue, there will likely be gasoline within the tank to make the Kẹkẹ zoom off whereas the apparently now stupefied passengers will watch the Kẹkẹ rushing off into oblivion.
“Generally, the Kẹkẹ operator could play the magnanimous by dropping some annoying money token as make-up transport fare.
” LASU college students are, subsequently, suggested to shun any Kẹkẹ with out its legitimate quantity plate displayed on the proper place on the Kẹkẹ”, Eniafe cautioned.
He additionally enjoined passengers on the axis to look out for the RTEAN stickers on the Kẹkẹ. This, in response to him, authenticates the popularity and approval of the machine to function on the axis.
He added that the LASU department of RTEAN can also be organising an consciousness programme for drivers on the necessity to obey all visitors guidelines and indicators together with tutoring them on respect for pedestrians at zebra crossings and likewise making certain that every one drivers on the route are armed with legitimate driving licence.
Eniafe, the RTEAN-LASU Chairman additionally warns that the Affiliation frowns at drivers’ disobedience to any of the visitors guidelines.
He additionally reiterated that point to time, RTEAN officers will at all times be sure that all their drivers are geared up with vehicular services resembling C-caution, Hearth Extinguishers and others.
“You will need to add that any driver whose automobile doesn’t fulfill all these necessities doesn’t qualify to have our stickers which then disqualifes such a driver from plying the axis for industrial functions”; The Chairman emphasised.
