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Truck proprietors kick against Lagos government commission specialists


The Allied Trucks Transporters Association of Nigeria (ATTAN) has censured the arrangement of commission specialists to gather incomes for the Lagos State Government. 

Talking at a press preparation in Lagos, the Trustee Chairman of the gathering, Johnson Oyedemi, said they were amazed when the Lagos State Ministry of Transportation welcomed them for a meeting to educate them of the new arrangement of income installment through its bonus operators. 

He called attention to that they were not conveyed along during the time spent expanding chargeable expenses or arrangement of commission operators in spite of the negative impacts the monetary subsidence was having on the business condition and working expenses in the state. 

Oyedemi regretted that for the state to present commission specialists as income gatherers for their sake was a method for including additional expenses and weight them. 

"For us in ATTAN, each augmentation in expenses or charges by government impacts adversely on our working expenses and lessens the employment creation openings gave by our individuals. We have more than 7000 trucks or enunciated vehicles worked by our individuals to fill the business and strategic needs of our clients inside and outside Lagos," he said. 

He spoke to the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to utilize his great workplaces and generosity to audit the inconvenience of the commission specialists with the end goal of gathering charges that they have been intentionally paying straightforwardly to the state treasury without default throughout the years. 

Oyedemi educated the legislature of their support for the recently presented drivers' and conductors' identifications for business traveler vehicles with the end goal of recognizable proof and open security because of episodes of one-chance movement thefts. 

He in any case, noticed that as suppliers of coordinations support for organizations and other entrepreneurial exercises in the express, the gathering ought not be constrained to pay the charges to acquire the identifications, saying such move would be viewed as simply one more chance to produce income.

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