Alleged Sale Of Oyo Transport Company’s 20 Buses As Scraps Untrue-Chair
Chairman of the Oyo Pacesetters Transport Service Company, Mr Dare Adeleke, has described as untrue a news report that he sold 20 buses of the company as scrap to spare parts dealers.
Adeleke, in a statement made available to www.newscoven.ng, said the report was a deliberate attempt to malign his name, asking, what has happened to investigative journalism?
He said the news medium that published the report that have done a thorough investigation to authentic its veracity before going to press.
Adeleke ascribed the allegation to a “deranged person”, adding that he is
available for a balanced reportage of the truth to put some facts straight for everyone concerned.
He said the administration of the Pacesetter Transport Company has increased the profitability and the number of its operational vehicle in from the 22 buses it met on ground to over 50 vehicles in just two years.
“The Oyo State Pacesetter Transport Service Company has a full functional Board of Directors under the leadership of Honourable Dare Adeleke as chairman and the board follows all due process in administering its activities.
“The purported report of sales of scrap by the opposition party, using their agents and cronies to distract the administration of PDP in the state, is nothing but a lie, a smokescreen, a case of crying wolf where there is none.
“It is not a new thing for obsolete and unserviceable buses to be sold but due process must be followed.
“However, we must remind the detractors that this administration has increased both in value and income and the fortune of the Pacesetter Transport Service Company has never been so prosperous.
“In spite of the challenges of spare parts of the Daewoo buses processed by the last administration which warranted the attempt to sell them off to Primero, a company owned by an APC stalwart, the Makinde administration turned the fortune of the company around by investing in spare parts to bring back over 30 grounded buses and continue to maintain the 20 operational buses it met on ground.
“FGMCs have increased their patronage of the company as corporate organisations like Coca-Cola has increased usage of PTS buses as staff buses and likewise ROM Oil & Extreme Manufacturing Company are using eight of our buses, while Oriental and Global Manufacturing company are using three buses.
“The increase in quality of our services has continued to attract religious and social cultural groups for chartered services of our buses on a regular basis.
“Despite the fact that PTS does not receive monthly subversions, the company pays her staff salaries on the 25th of every month and, just like the state government, the staff received their last salaries on the 18th of July due to the Sallah Festival.
“Likewise, and for the first time in seven years, the staff of the company enjoyed promotion nominally and financially,” the statement read.
Adeleke called on the opposition to embrace developmental politics in Oyo State, declaring that the gates of the company are always open to the media to report facts, rather than speculations.
