By Adeoluwa Bravo
As the Covid-19 effects bite harder on food sufficiency and poverty alleviation, the National President of Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, Alh. Musa Muhammed Maitakobi enjoins all Nigerians to get involved in sharing food items and palliatives with vulnerable citizens and the poor masses.
“The Government must not be left alone in the duty of providing succor to the people during the Covid 19 challenge”.
Maitakobi said his association which is the umbrella body for Nigerian Road Transport Sector has taken the responsibility of sharing food items and cash relief to transport employees and the general masses. During a visit to the Lagos office of the association at Akesan, a number of
residents were sighted on queue as they wait for their turn to receive food items and cash.
The Transport Boss said though the government has assisted them with six hundred and ninety bags of garri, 25kg each, and had also promised to deliver bags of rice, his association had taken up the challenge of feeding the masses within their capacity- knowing well that palliative is not
just for government to provide but for all mankind to get involved.
While thanking the states and federal government for their efforts towards national development, Maitakobi reminded that there is need to fully recognize the transport sector in Nigeria, by formalizing the sector fully and making it attractive for investors.
“We have not been recognized fully in this sector; there is Bank of Industry, there is Bank of Agriculture but where is Bank of Transport, despite that we are a major sector in the economy of the nation”.
