The Rivers State Commissioner for Transport, Collins Onunwo, has announced the immediate disbandment of all local government and Ministry of Transport taskforces on road decongestion operating in the state.
Mr Onunwo made this known following widespread complaints of hara$$ment and extortion by Port Harcourt residents against the various task force officials amid a viral video showing a woman being harassed and extorted of forty thousand naira by task force officials along Ada George Road.
According to the victim who recorded the officials, the officials drove against traffic to access a POS operator where the money was withdrawn. The Transport Commissioner emphasized that the Rivers State Government under Governor Siminialayi Fubara has a human face and will not tolerate any form of hara$$ment or intimidation of residents under the guise of taskforce operations.
Mr Onunwo also assured the public that the government would reconstitute a taskforce to regulate the activities of motorists at an appropriate time
