Unregistered Tricycle Owners Will Be Treated As Criminals – Osun Govt

Commercial tricycle operators working in Osun state has been ordered to ensure that they have valid documents to back their operations or face sanctions.

The state government gave the order, adding that the warning was a sequel to the report linking some tricycle operators to criminal activities in the state.

The government made this known in a statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Mr Yakubu Adejare on Wednesday.

The statement said henceforth, unregistered tricycles would no longer be allowed to operate in the state, stressing that anyone caught using a tricycle with no proper documents would be held for committing traffic offences.

The government in the statement, urged the tricycle operators to ensure they get documents such as hackney permits, roadworthiness, as well as, vehicle licences before they start operating in the state.

The statement published in the bulletin of the State Ministry of Information and Public Enlightenment, further read, “We have recently discovered that a lot of tricycle operators in Osun State are on the roads without necessary documents. It is regarded as a traffic offence henceforth.

“All tricycle operators must ensure they get necessary documents before they hit the road with their automobiles. Men of OTRAM and the VIO officials will begin to do a stop-and-search operation soon.

“Tricycles are being used to perpetrate evil by men of the underworld; any operator that refuses to get the particulars will henceforth be regarded as an agent of evil.”