The Borno Government has purchased 50 buses to boost the fleet of Borno Express Transport Corporation.
The state Commissioner for Transport, Alhaji Abubakar Tijjani, made this known on Friday while briefing newsmen on activities of the ministry in the past one year.
He said that 10 of the buses are 51 seaters and would be used for intra-city passengers.
Tijjani also said that the government was in talks with a South Korean company for the supply of 500 taxi cabs to ease transportation problems in Maiduguri city.
“If not because of the COVID-19 pandemic the cars would have been supplied by now,” Tijjani said.
The commissioner said that there was a move to establish a traffic management agency that would create job opportunities and sanitise the state traffic system.
He said the ongoing rehabilitation of Maiduguri trailer park, at the outskirt of the town, would stop trailers from entering the town where they cause traffic chaos.
“We have also commenced the biometric registration of tricycle riders to regularise their operations and flush out criminal elements in the business,” Tijjani said.
Also speaking, the Commissioner for Works, Alhaji Yerima Sale, said about 225 projects were executed by the ministry within one year, including erosion control in Bayo Local Government Area.
Sale also said that work on the Maiduguri flyover project, which is the first in North East, but suspended because of COVID-19, has resumed fully.
