A chieftain of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN in Ogun state, Oluomo Akibu Titilayo, prominently known as Efele, has denied the allegation that some members of the union were barred from partaking in transport activities in various parks in Ogun East.
Oluomo Akibu, who made this clarification on Tuesday while speaking with journalists in his Ijebu Ode office, disclosed further that the ambience on union activities has been friendly and accommodating since coming to office of Governor Dapo Abiodun.
Some aggrieved members of the union on Monday had besieged the Police Area Command, Igbeba in Ijebu Ode local government to protest their alleged suspension from various parks in the area.
However, Oluomo Akibu maintained that no legitimate member of the union in the area has been stopped from transport business.
“We operate a process where genuine complaints from members are lodged and addressed. The leadership of the union will thereafter look into it in a way to resolve such. But the reverse is the case in this situation. We have it on good authority that those protesters were hoodlums who were hired by some recalcitrant members to cause mayhem in the state.”
According to him, the transport committee recently inaugurated by Governor Abiodun to sanitise activities at various parks in the state has lived up to expectations.
The union leader, however, appealed to various security agencies in the state to sustain the peaceful atmosphere and on the other hand monitor the activities of any member suspected to be nursing the idea of creating acrimony at various parks in the state.
-Oyin Princess
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