Joan Mrakpor Warms Against Rider’s Lawlessness In Delta

<p><em>Joan Mrakpor has sent warning signals to tricycle and motorcycle riders in the State<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;review-cost-of-running-government-within-14-days-serap-tells-buhari&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Joan <strong>Mrakpo<&sol;strong>r&comma; the Director-General&comma; Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency&comma; has sent warning signals to tricycle and motorcycle riders in the State the governor Ifeanyi Okowa led administrating is deploying zero tolerance on lawlessness in the State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The warning is contained in a statement issued by the Delta State Government on Sunday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the statement&comma; Joan Mrakpor that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It will not condone a situation where some tricycle and motorcycle riders indulge in various criminal activities in Asaba and environs&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;She however promised to deal with violators of the rule of engagement stipulated by the government in view of complaints whereby &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Members of the public of being attacked&comma; and dispossessed of their valuables and cash by some tricycle and motor cycle riders who ply the streets of Asaba and neighbouring towns&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The statement reads in part&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8221&semi;It is also not the intention of the state government to close its eyes and pretend anybody can come into the Delta State capital territory and do whatever he likes&semi; that we&&num;8217&semi;ll not permit&period; Union&comma; put your house in order&period; Find out those you know&period; Those you don&&num;8217&semi;t know&comma; who are commiting crime&comma; report them to the nearest police station of that point of the crime&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> Mrakpor warned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She also warned that government would not tolerate any further destruction and defacing of public property in the state capital by any individual or group of persons under any guise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Mrakpor tasked all residents to take ownership of their environment and protect all public property in their areas&comma; saying that public buildings and infrastructure were built with tax payers’ money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said that the Taskforce on Environment was set to rid the state capital territory of all illegal structures and criminal elements beginning from Monday&comma; and appealled to the residents to cooperate with the team to make Asaba clean and safe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The DG restated the commitment of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa&&num;8217&semi;s administration to creating jobs for the youths to alleviate their plights&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Delta State Commissioner for Information&comma; Mr Charles Aniagwu&comma; said that government would not for any reason sacrifice security of its citizen on the altar of any economy consideration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;<em>We appreciate the importance and contribution of keke riders because to a very large extent&comma; they contribute to the movement of people to and fro&period; But you must know that the most important thing is the security of our people&semi; that we cannot sacrifice on the altar of any economic consideration&&num;8230&semi;&period;and we are happy that the leadership of keke are very much willing to cooperate with us in that regard&period; By the grace of God&comma; by next week &lpar;this week&rpar;&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll begin to streamline their operations so that we know where riders operate and have a way of identifying them&period; Keke is not inter city where you move from Lagos&comma; and all of a sudden&comma; you find yourself in Delta&period; Keke is usually within a particular town&comma;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi; Aniagwu said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said that the operation of the tricycle and motorcycle riders would be streamlined in a way that they would be allowed to operate within specified routes&comma; and not from community to community&comma; or from town to town&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This&comma; according to him&comma; would make it easy for the operation of tricycle and motorcycle riders to be monitored for security reason&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Chairman of the Tricycle and Motorcycle Riders Union&comma; Delta State&comma; Chief Obi Nzete&comma; gave an assurance that they were ready to work with the state government to flush out those with suspicious and questionable motives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chief Nzete&comma; represented by the Financial Secretary of the transport union&comma; Mr Tony Chukwudi&comma; hinted that those with criminal tendencies were keke riders who come from outside Asaba&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He insisted that the leadership of the union does not tolerate any act of lawlessness from its members&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;<em>We know our members by their names and phone numbers in our register&&num;8230&semi;&period; Those who perpetrate these crimes are not those who are based in Asaba&period; But we are ready to work with you to flush out the criminals&period; Our state president has urged every member of our union to be law-abiding<&sol;em><strong>&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong> he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;