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PMT boss, Onyishi, empowers drivers – Newtelegraph

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hairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Peace Mass Transit (PMT) Company Limited, Dr. Samuel Maduka Onyishi yesterday in Enugu announced his vision to expand his transport business to other African countries, including Ghana and South Africa.

 

Onyishi, who spoke during opening ceremony of a four-week training programme for drivers in his company by Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC), Enugu State Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) and the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), also announced a new policy of empowering drivers who had worked for him to establish their own transport companies through what he called ‘Driver to Owners’ (DTO) scheme.

 

He said that the scheme, which allowed drivers to pay by installment cost of vehicle they were driving by becoming owners had replaced the earlier scheme whereby the drivers were settled with two or three vehicles after putting in 15 years of service in the company.

 

The transport mogul stated that with the new vehicle assembly plant which he established at Emene Industrial layout, Enugu, he unveiled his plans to expand his transport business to other countries in Africa to give the Chinese a run for their money.

He said: “My dream is that all my drivers should be bus owners. I don’t want to own the vehicles again. You come and own the vehicles and we share the profit.”

 

“I have vehicle assembly plant which just turned out 50 units last week. We want to dominate Africa transport business. No reason to allow Chinese to go to Egypt, Ghana etc to run transport business while we are here.

 

“When we are telling you to drive carefully, we are telling you to stay alive and become big men… my advice to you is that you should put to use all the useful tips you will acquire during this training. It is for your live. That’s why I employ mostly married men as drivers; so that if they don’t remember themselves they will remember their children and slow down.”

Speaking while flagging off the training open, FRSC’s Enugu State Sector Commander, Mr. Ogbonnaya Kalu Oko stated that the training was for defensive driving and safety regulation as Peace Mass Transit which was the biggest transport company in the country carried thousands of persons and goods had always been concerned when any vehicle of the company was involved in road crash.

In  lecture by Mr. Eyeuche Ome, the Principal Staff Officer, Drug Demand Reduction Unit, NDLEA Enugu state Command,  entitled “Alcohol/Drug use and Road Safety: A Growing Concern,” declared that 40, 000 deaths occur on Nigeria roads annually, according to the global status report published in 2018 by World Health Organisation.

 

 

He, however, blamed some of the road crashes on the use of psychoactive drugs such as cocaine, heroin, alcohol, coffee, tobacco among others by drivers, noting that any substance that affected mental ability and behavior of a person would lead to impaired driving by delaying reaction time and information processing.

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