Oyo State Government has announced that users of tricycles and motorcycles for commercial purposes in the state have been granted an extension of two weeks to comply with the state government’s directives to paint their vehicles in the state colours of chocolate brown and yellow.
The Chairman, Oyo State Road Transport Management Authority, (OYRTMA), Dr. Akin Fagbemi, who stated this during a media interaction, said the state government has considered pleas from commercial operators on their inability to meet up with the initial deadline of March 16, 2020.
Fagbemi, therefore, said the deadline has been extended by additional two-weeks, which would elapse on Wednesday, 1st of April, 2020.
He added that the extension became necessary as a result of the dramatic rate of compliance recorded in the past two weeks with about 75 per cent compliance rate.
The OYRTMA boss urged the operators to comply within the approved extended time, adding that they should take advantage of the state government’s magnanimity to subsidise the cost of painting at the agency to N1000, as against the bogus price obtained with private painters.
He concluded that after this period of extension elapses, defaulters would be severely dealt with according to the dictate of the law governing public transportation in the state.
