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The Speaker of the House of Representative, Dimeji Bankole and the House Committee on Transport will be meeting with stakeholders in the transport sector on March 18 at the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja by 10am to discuss the way forward in the industry.

In a statement signed by Inimfon Etuk, the Head, Public Relations and Strategic Communications MessageWise Limited, the organisers of the event said since the commencement of the dialogue series in 2008, the Programme has seen the leadership of the House of Representatives, chairmen and members of various Committees in the House engaging intensively with operators in different sectors of the economy.

According to the statement, the dialogue with the Transport sector will address the budgetary allocation/project prioritisation issues; manpower crises/generational gap in specialty areas in the sector; development of alternative routes for heavy cargo transportation; non-existent fair trade policies in the sector; corruption and abuse of power which inherently impede due process; lack of support in the sector in its bid to drive innovative development initiatives; weak legislative process necessary for reform in the transport sector and the communication gap between House of Representatives and operators within the transport sector amongst other things.

The statement further noted: "The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole is expected to lead the chairmen and members of the House of Representatives Committees on Transport and related committees to the dialogue."

Expected participants at the dialogue would include officials of Federal and State Parastatals within the Transport and related sectors, relevant regulatory bodies, CEOs of operators within the transport sector including airlines and mass transport companies, the diplomatic community, strategy and corporate development consultants, and the media.[/b]





Comment complete waste of time.

To build a good transport system you must make laws compelling state governments to create STATE TRANSPORT AUTHORITIES.

This authorities will set up transport blocks that will be bought and owned by companies. The blocks will include priviledges and responsibility

1) carry people from place to place
2) import tax exemption on vehicle
3) Buses must be brand new and must be from the same brand
4) must have bus repair workshops this will come from the suppliers of the buses
5) must have bus terminus (they could buy up houses and break them down for use as bus terminus)
6) could give them tax holiday for 5 years
7) They must have customer care outlet
The blocks will cost money to be determined by the individual state government.

You see one of the problems with political involvement on transportation is that when the players dont have a business stake it a TRANSPORT BUSINESS your transport service will never move anywhere.

You can not put the weight of 20 million people on enterprenueral involvement or just political intervention.

buying a bus for your brother in nigeria and then giving it to someone to drive and bring delivery is never going to work we can never solve our problems.

on the hand the government involving itself with transport running directly will giving imense room for fraud from the beginning to the end. The fact is that this way your transport run by the state will run down because the over heard cost will be so much. you will discover there will be no money made. When election time comes the transport account will be hardest hit because it is a Political entity.


WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IS THAT THE GOVERNMNT SHOULD IMMEDIATELY SET THE BLOCKS YOU WILL NOT NEED TO SPEND NOTHING YOU WILL MAKE MONEY FOR YOUR STATE.

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I HAVE REPEATED THIS ON VARIOUS THREADS AND I KNOW GOD WILL HELP US