Governor Babagana Umaru Zulum of Borno state on Friday unveiled 90 units of mass transit buses to enhance the operations of Borno Express Corporation, a public transportation services company owned by the state government.
The buses include 40 units of 50-seaters and 50 units of 14-seaters, all of which have combined capacity for 2, 740 passengers.
The governor unveiled the buses at the Ramat Square in Maiduguri during a brief ceremony that was organised by the ministry of transport.
“In fulfillment of our electioneering campaign to provide affordable means of transportation, we are here to unveil new buses to ease difficulties faced by the public,” the governor said, before tasking managers of the Borno Express to inculcate a sustainable maintenance strategy which would ensure that all vehicles remained functional.
After unveiling the buses, Governor Zulum spoke on commercial tricycles, popularly called Keke NAPEP, directing the ministry of transport to liaise with the ministry of justice and all other relevant stakeholders to ensure sanity in the operations of Keke operators.
In his remarks, the Commissioner for Transport, Dr. Abubakar Tijjani, gave the assurance that the buses would “soon be deployed for public use.”
