{"id":177657,"date":"2025-09-04T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tricyclists-decry-police-and-vio-harassment-in-delta"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:38:24","slug":"tricyclists-decry-police-and-vio-harassment-in-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tricyclists-decry-police-and-vio-harassment-in-delta","title":{"rendered":"Tricyclists Decry Police and VIO Harassment in Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Commercial tricyclists operating within Warri and Edjeba on Thursday lamented over multiple daily levies, police harassment, and rising tricycle costs from touts, as they urged Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, to intervene and ease their burden.<\/p>\n

Our correspondent, who went into town to monitor the activities of the tricyclists, gathered that some of them, in separate interviews, described how ticketing, intimidation by security agencies, and skyrocketing tricycle prices are affecting their transportation businesses and livelihoods.<\/p>\n

They also rejected attempts by unions to introduce new compulsory levies, including baskets and aprons.<\/p>\n

According to them, they pay a daily ticket fee of \u20a6300 to avoid harassment from local touts.<\/p>\n

While they admitted the levies offered some protection from street boys, they lamented that the collections amount to huge sums by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Mr. Lucky Inweh, a marine engineer turned tricyclist who has been in the business for five years, said, *\u201cI want the government to reduce the ticket price because it adds up to a huge amount yearly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey tried to force us to buy baskets, but we refused. That issue is resurfacing again, and I don\u2019t want government to approve it.\u201d*<\/p>\n

Mr. Benson Henry, who started riding in 2018, said, \u201cEven if they don\u2019t reduce the \u20a6300 ticket, they should cancel the basket and apron plan. That\u2019s just another burden.\u201d<\/p>\n

The riders reserved their harshest criticism for the police, Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO), and traffic enforcement teams such as the Delta State Traffic Management Authority (DESTMA).<\/p>\n

They accused the agencies of setting traps and extorting them under false pretenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018Okowa Police\u2019 hold us for parking wrongly, even when we didn\u2019t, and demand huge sums. Sometimes they take our Keke to the station, forgetting we are struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Micheal Lagosman, who plies different routes daily, called them \u201cmoney mongers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVIO and the yellow-fever police are not doing their job diligently. They set traps to collect money from us as though we are looting millions. Government should remove them from the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another tricyclist, Mr. Ejiro Michael Umukoro, said experience has taught him how to avoid some of the tricks.<\/p>\n

In his words, \u201cI know their devices now, but new riders suffer more. DESTMA even fines us for stopping to drop passengers on roads without proper bus stops or \u2018No Parking\u2019 signs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond tickets and harassment, Henry highlighted the spiraling price of tricycles as a major crisis.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cWhen I started, a Keke was \u20a6500,000. Now it sells between \u20a64.5 million to \u20a67 million, with daily balance of \u20a612,000. The price is worse than fuel. The governor should visit depots and regulate the cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

All four riders urged Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to clamp down on extortion and address ticketing and pricing issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemove the Okowa Police, VIO, DESTMA and the rest. They are after money, not work,\u201d Umukoro said.<\/p>\n

Lagosman insisted that, \u201cThe governor should caution these agencies. They\u2019re making life difficult for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of press time, efforts to reach the Delta State Ministry of Transport and tricycle union officials for comment were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

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