Nigeria: Delta Sets Up Task Force to Recover Debts From Mass Transit Operators

8 January 2014

Asaba — DELTA State Government has said it has set up a special task force with the mandate of recovering huge sums of money owed it by the operators of commercial buses under its Urban Mass Transit Scheme.

The state Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Benson Igbakpa, warned that beginning from this month, defaulters would have such vehicles recovered from them, if they failed to show proof of payment, describing their action as "wickedness."

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