A forum of stakeholders in Anambra state, under the aegis of Anambra Stakeholders Forum, ASF has urged Governor Chukwuma Soludo to relief Emeka JohnCross Okonkwo (a.k.a Konti) of his appointment as state Chairman of Anambra Road Traffic Management Agency, ARTMA for abusing the objectives of ARTMA.
ASF urged Soludo to also relief Nnamdi Emmanuel Aghadinunor (a.k.a Ochudo) of his appointment as Onitsha zonal leader of the Agency for the same reason of abusing ARTMA objectives.
Leader of ASF, Nze Uzoma Anunihu who made the call in a press statement issued in Awka Anambra State at the weekend, said the call for immediate sack of the duo of Konti and Ochudo became imperative in view of the fact that they have consistently abused the privileges given to them to decongest the roads of traffic jam.
Nze Anunihu insisted that in the instant case, ARTMA capitalized on the existence of an erosion site at Onitsha/Owerri road to extort as much as N100,000; N200,000 or N300,000 as the case may be from the unsuspecting motorists under false accusation of obstructing road traffic law.
According to ASF, “ARTMA, under the leadership of Konti and Ochudo, impound an average of 5 vehicles per day and extort huge amount of money from them without paying same into the state government coffers” using POS as a means of payment,such money to a private account instead of government treasury, they normally collect cash from porpurted offenders
“Rather than focusing on traffic decongestion which is their primary duties, they go for extortion with full concentration on private vehicles, leaving commercial vehicles because of kick-backs they receive from the commercial vehicle operators”.
“Konti and Ochudo lack the vision to lead ARTMA to a success, have become dictators to the core and at the same time creating bad names for Soludo and his administration. The due has became a revenue generation agency.
They should be shown the way out because instead of decongesting traffic on our roads at strategic places like Owerri road, Upper Iweka, Ochanja Roundabout and some other places”, said ASF.