Osun State governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has announced a new transport management system for Osun State.
He said the triple objectives of the new management system included securing motor parks; creating thousands of jobs; and increasing the state’s internally generated revenue.
Governor Adeleke made these known in a statement by his spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed.
The governor said the new transport management model is “a fulfilment of his earlier promise to sanitise the current park system and ensure commuters enjoy a new lease of safe and secured transportation.”
He restated the need to overhaul the state transport system.
He added that the approved new structure has a supervisory disciplinary committee to supervise activities of the two sectors in the transport system namely, vehicles and cycles.
“The composition of the Transport Disciplinary Committee is 11-team member and they are as follows:
“Representative of Commissioner of Works and Transport, Office of Transportation; representative of; Commissioner of Finance; representative of Consultant; representative of Osun Internal Revenue Service (OIRS);
“Alhaji Fakorede Rauf; Barrister Jola Akintola; Chief Olusola Adedokun; Rev. Olaleye Edward Onipede; Mr Bamidele Isiaka; Mr Oyeyemi Dauda Olamilekan; and Mr Animashaun Adeshina Taofeek.
“The Disciplinary Committee will swear in Comrade Wakeel Nurudeen Oluronbi for the vehicle sector of the Transport System and Comrade Oyeniyi Sikiru Ayobami to head the cycles sector.
“It is a one-ticketing system approach across the state and it will create thousands of temporary jobs in Osun State.
“The new policy will boost our revenue generating capacity and help improve our economy.
“In addition, this new system will eradicate the insecurity, destruction of properties and killings experienced by commuters when rival unions groups attack each other.
“Moving forward, nobody should be caught fighting or causing any kind of unrest in our parks or roads,” the governor admonished.
It was also revealed that Elchanan Projects and Concepts Limited is the consultant that will supervise the overall implementation of the transport sector reform.
