ARWPAN SAYS IT WILL CREATE 1,000,000, JOBS
Oru Leonard
The Association of Rights and Welfare of Passengers in Nigeria (ARWPAN), said it will as,create One million jobs and deliver adequate welfare for passengers in the country.
The Board Chairman of the association, Engr.Tina Onojeghohuo Echero, stated this today during a national conference of the executives and members ARWPAN in Abuja.
Echero, who is a marine Engineer with a Master degree in Transportation Engineering, said that the organisation also revealed that it will carry out biometric survey of the state of all roads across the country bringing to fore the statistics and actual locations of portholes on the roads that leads to accident and encourages social evils such as arrmed robbery and kidnaping.
“The organisation will provide identification card for all passengers,
to solve the problems associated with non-identification of victims of accidents who are alive or dead.
“The whole process has its bearing on interest rate, gross domestic product, consumer price index, government fiscal and monetary policies. The implication is that we have to fashion out a business model for accurate forecast for the future condition of the transportation system in the country which has to be handled by third party privacy.
“Whatever model we develop must take into account the human interest factor. Without human beings who are the passengers, there is no transportation. The welfare of passengers becomes a major phenomenon.
“Nigeria is a big country blessed with a huge population that can be conservatively put at 150 million people. the population of Nigeria is an asset that can impact positively on the consumer price index to the lowest denomination currency in the country. The utilization of the lowest currency will have its mulplier effect on the GDP and inflation.”
Also speaking to Journaliists, the National Vice President of ARWPAN, Chief Solomon Kpomah said that the grants received from donors will be used to build facilities that will take care of passengers. He added that every passenger will pay ten naira per trip to benefit from the scheme.
On raising the number of volunteers needed the VP noted that the essence the meeting today is access how many they are in various stages and local governments. He added that the group is contact with the Nigeria Police, The Federal Road Safety Commission, Vehicle Inspection office for collaboration and called for the cooperation of Nigerians in the passenger walfare project.
The meeting which had in attendance representatives from across the states was meant to give an update on what has been done so far to kick start the operation of the organisation.
