Over N50m spent to renovate Nyanya Motor Park- Consultant …as bus operation begins
Six years after the closure of Nyanya temporary motor park situated at the outskirt of the FCT, the consultant to the management of the damaged park were many souls were lost, has told The Abuja Times, that its leadership, has spent over N50 million to put the park in a proper shape to commence normal operation.
The Nyanya park manager said this during the official reopening of the park on Tuesday in Abuja.
The man known as Alhaji Isiaka lagode, who was the Chief Executive Officer of the Isiaka Lagode Enterprises, stressed that in order to bring the destroyed park to proper operation, that the company haven reached agreement with the Federal Capital Territory Administration, expended over fifty million naira.
The money, according to him, was expended on the purchase of CCTV cameras, fencing of the park as well as employment of security personnel.
Commenting on the project, he said the agreement was reached under public private partnership, adding that the sharing formulae stand at 70/30 per cent.
The FCT administration, he revealed, is getting about 70% while he gets 30% irrespective of operational costs. In determining the revenue generation base, he noted that ticket sale forms the block generation of revenue, while that of other businesses such as bukertaria and other articles within the park also can add to the revenue generation.
While speaking earlier, the Acting Secretary of Transportation Secretariat, Alhaji Abdulramid Sulaimain Abdulraman, stated that since the closure of the terminal, commuters from this axis were subjected to untold hardship as a result of absence of a clearly defined terminal.
Alhaji Abdulraman stressed that not only that the commuters board vehicles along the road thereby exposing them to further threat to their lives, the vicinity around the bombed terminal where commuters converge to board vehicles was always congested thereby causing heavy vehicular gridlocks.
“The closure of the terminal also impacted negatively on the Terminal Operator Manager, M/S Baba Nagode who was out of operation all these while and equally spent substantial amount in rebuilding this site.
The journey to the reopening of this terminal was tortuous. Various security meetings were held to determine the various implications or otherwise of its reopening. I’m happy to announce to you the various security meetings favoured the reopening and that’s what we are here to do this afternoon,” he said.
The Acting Secretary Transportation Secretariat remarked further that the law enforcement agents have been fully mobilised to ensure all round security of the commuters in and around the terminal.
“I want to commend the Law enforcement agents who had kept vigil of this site since April 2014 when the bombs scattered this place. Your effort is what kept the enemy away from this vicinity all these while. Please your activities have to increase as this terminal goes into full operation.
“Let me also call on the commuters to make maximum use of this terminal. Do not hang along the road to board vehicles as doing so amounts to a violation of our Traffic Rules. All high capacity buses along this route are to pick their passengers inside the terminal and finally discharge them at the terminals located within the city centre.
The Law enforcement agents have been mobilised to arrest and prosecute any commuter who will hang along the road to board the buses.
The Law enforcement agents have also been mobilised to arrest any low capacity bus or unregistered taxi drivers who may want to circumvent the efforts of the FCT Administration at sanitising the public transportation sector of our economy,”Alhaji Abdulramna stated.
