North-East group condemns FG’s impending Motorcycle ban
A youth group under the aegis of North-East Youth Transformation Forum, on Sunday condemned plan by the Federal Government to ban commercial motorcycles known as ‘Achaba’.
Achaba is a two-wheeled conveyance used for transporting commuters and goods due to it ability to move into difficult terrain. An advantage that has made it easy for criminals to perpetrate heinous crimes.
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Recall that the minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami, recently disclosed that the Federal Government would consider banning commercial motorcycles through out the country as part of measures to tackle security challenges.
The organisation through its president Comrade Abdulrazak Albani, decried the decision, stressing that it would subject about 98 million Nigerians to hardship.
According to him, out of the 200 million people in the country, over 98 million of its population suffer from abject poverty and do not have vehicles of their own pointing out that the Achaba ban would further make them vulnerable and miserable.
Albani revealed that aside making transportation difficult for the poor citizens, the decision would render commercial motorcyclists jobless as well as increase the rate of crimes in the society.
He said, “The population of the country hit over 200 million now and statistics by the UNDP reveals that people living below the poverty line in the nation are 98 million, almost half of the population. These people cannot afford three square meals daily let alone possessing transportation vehicles.
“So the ban on motorcycles operation will compound their problems and make many people jobless.
“We therefore call on our senators, house of representatives members, governors, traditional and religious leaders to prevail on the federal government to jettison this decision.”
