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June 30, 2005
30 NAPEP tricycles grounded in Ebonyi
Out of the 35 tricycles, popularly called Keke NAPEP, distributed to beneficiaries in Ebonyi State a year ago, only five have are now functional.
The rest are grounded and have been put off the roads due to scarcity of spare parts to effect their repairs, Douglas Ogbonna, Ebonyi Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), has said.
He said in an interview in Abakaliki that the tricycles started developing faults just two months after they were acquired and distributed to the beneficiaries.
Ogbonna said there was no accredited agent to sell the spare parts in the state adding that since the tricycles were off the roads, many of the beneficiaries could not meet up with the repayment schedule.
The tricycles were given out as loan at a cost of N180, 000 repayable within one year.
Ogbonna, however, said owners of the Keke NAPEP and beneficiaries had met with government to find solution to scarcity of spare parts.
Posted by Publisher at June 30, 2005 05:02 PM
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