By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

Tricycle operators plying Onitsha Main market to Oba in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State through Onitsha/Owerri road have cried out to the State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, over alleged introduction of a new levy payment system called ?Trans-Pay,? by the state government.

Speaking on behalf of the operators on Tuesday, the coordinator of the Keke Union before it was suspended, John Obumse, said that with the new payment system that their situation would be worsened.

He described tricycle business as one for the poor class who contribute 90 per cent of votes in the state and will vote for Soludo?s second tenure to enable him complete projects he has at hand.

Obumse said: ?What he is doing especially on roads will make our tricycle to have longer life span. Before now Keke contracts were sublet to various contractors until government decided that we should be paying directly to it and we complied.

?Whether you work or not you have to pay and we have been paying till now that government ordered that we start paying through a new system, Trans-Pay, without lecturing us on the new payment system and that we should procure ticket for our Keke to be installed with trackers.

?As law abiding citizens, we went for that and discovered that this new payment is worse, and we want to return to where we were before because we don?t understand what is happening again. The two contracting firms that we pay money could not even reconcile the payment we make in the new system.

?The duo should reconcile their differences because when we pay to one, it should reflect on the other, that way, the Unified High Breed Enforcement Team will stop frustrating us when we know we are not owing as we pay as at when due. Based on this confusion one of them will send its taskforce to confiscate our tricycles when we put them on the road.

?If you are checked through Trans-Pay they say you are owing and if it is through Inspector they say you are not owing. The two contractors responsible for this payment, Unified High Breed Enforcement Team and OWASIN should reconcile their differences for us to escape from being victims. That is why we plead to Governor Soludo for us to return to the former situation.?

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