TRICYCLE RESUMPTION-BAYELSA

 

Striking Commercial Tricycle Operators otherwise called ‘Keke Riders’ have resumed operations in Yenagoa after withdrawing their services to protest arbitrary levies and taxation.

Many commuters and Residents were stranded due to the action by the Keke Riders on Monday as Commercial Tricycle is the major means of land transportation in the Bayelsa State capital.

The parties issued a ten point communiqué after the talks agreeing on the need for the registration of all tricycles in the State and a reduction in the registration fee from six thousand five hundred Naira to three thousand Naira  to cover reflective vest, numbers and Identity card. All tricycles are to complete their registration on or before February, Fifteen this year. 

The meeting also agreed that the state Government will continue with its policy of unified taxes to avoid multiple taxation. In this regard, the annual levy for the tricycles has been reduced from thirteen thousand Naira to seven thousand Naira covering all forms of taxes and levies including sanitation, Ministry of Environment and Local Government.

It was also stated that the state Government did not and has no intention to increase daily ticket dues to six hundred Naira as Tricycles will continue to pay for their daily tickets of one hundred Naira to Government and another one hundred Naira their Unions.

The state Government pledged to continue to engage the security forces especially the Police and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to ensure that law abiding tricycles are not molested on the roads.