The Oyo State Government has announced that users of tricycles and motorcycles for commercial purposes within its borders 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 Executive Chairman, Oyo State Road Transport Management Authority, Dr. Akin Fagbemi, announced this on Tuesday while speaking with newsmen in Ibadan.
He 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 April 1, 2020.
Fagbemi added that the extension became necessary as a result of the dramatic rate of compliance recorded in the past two weeks.
He put the compliance rate at 75 per cent.
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 by N1,000 as against the bogus price obtained with private painters.
He added: “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.”
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