• Union, councils clash over sharing formula
Commercial motorcyclists, also known as Okada, in Ogun State have kicked against the daily N200 fee for insurance by the authorities of Abeokuta South and North local councils’ chairmen.
They described the move as an attempt to exploit the riders despite the N800 daily ticket collected by the unions.
Chairmen of Abeokuta South Local Council, Afeez Balogun, and his Abeokuta North counterpart, Lanre Sodipo, recently met with the leadership of the unions on the charge for daily premium ticket collection for the insurance scheme whose engagement deadlocked.
The two chairmen, during a briefing at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Secretariat, Abeokuta, accused the leadership of the unions of sabotaging the councils’ efforts to insure the riders with a propo
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