The Edo State government on Tuesday said it has taken delivery of 50 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses of 52-seaters to ease transportation across the state.
The state Commissioner for Communication and Strategy, Kassim Afegbua, disclosed in Benin while briefing journalists on the activities of the state government.
Afegbua, who said the buses “will soon be released to members of the public to ease transportation concerns across the three senatorial districts,” stressed: “We’re expecting another 50 buses of 52-seater, our target is 100 buses of 52-seater.”
He added, “Those buses will soon be released to members of the public to ease transportation concerns across the three senatorial districts.”
“I don’t want to unveil the distribution pattern, but we are going to distribute them across the three senatorial districts to ease transportation and also to minimise the hazards people have to go through each time they need to travel.”
Afegbua, who disclosed that the government is “creating some kind of investment-friendly environment that will stimulate enterprise and investment,” urged the public to “help the government to synthesise and simplify the motives behind any government policy.”
On perennial flooding in Edo, particularly the state capital, the commissioner urged residents to dump refuse at the designated areas as the rainy season is here.
He added, “They should please take environmental sanitation very seriously. They should also please help us to dump refuse in the designated areas.
“They shouldn’t litter the streets with non-renewable objects, particularly in our drains. We expect the public to also understand that when you dump things in the drains, you are blocking the free flow of water to where the water must find its level.
“So when you block the way, it will rise above the drains, and it will cause havoc in homes. So please, the federal government has issued an alert.
“We are also issuing our own alerts. We have done some level of study with respect to our ecological realities in the new state.
“And if you look at the roads we are constructing in Benin and elsewhere, there are side drains on both sides.
“That is to help channel rainwater to places where it wouldn’t cause much harm to inhabitants around those areas. If you look at the Ramat Park flyover, for example, you will see a huge underground drain that is currently being done.
“So what we are doing is to also alert the public to help the government with respect to their attitude of dumping non-renewable objects on our drains.”
