Leadership (Abuja)
6 January 2009
The Vice Chairman, Motorcycles ransport Union of Nigeria (MTUN), Bwari Branch, Comrade Chika Madu, has said that his branch was not carried along in all negotiation with the government on the dateline on the use of helmet.
Madu stated this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Bwari adding that, "those who attended the meeting did not represent us".
According to him, the union had no national officials as those who were there had been dissolved for a long time and there has never been any election to fill the gap."I don't even know who those people were, and even if they were there on our behalf, they did not communicate with us the out come of their meeting," he said.
The Financial Secretary of the union, Mr Cyprian Anikpeh, explained further that the dateline given their members nationwide was too short."As I am talking to you now, none of us is aware of anything about the helmet issue, nobody briefed us, we don't even know where or how to get the helmets for our members,"he added.
He said the situation at their hands was that of lack of purchasing power of the said item, "most our members are drivers, they do not own those motorcycles, they work and retire the monoey to the owners who then give them something".Anikpeh said the same people have family to cater for, saying that it was not easy as they get N1000 to N700 in a day.
"So how do you expect somebody with that income to buy something at once, we need to be given time and the out let to get the product." he said.He appealed to the Area Council Chairman to help his members by purchasing the helmet and subsidisedthe price to them."It is not even that but the payment should be allowed to be installamentally as they cannot pay at once," he said.(NAN)
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