By Ismail Auwal
The industrial action embarked upon by the commercial tricycle riders in Kano State on Monday has crippled educational and economic activities in the state.
The riders downed the tool on Monday to protest registration fee of N8000 charged by the Kano Road Traffic Agency (KAROTA).
SAHELIAN TIMES observed that passengers most of whom students, business owners, and civil servants were left stranded on Monday morning.
The paper gathered that Yusuf Maitama Sule University has been compelled to postpone exams that were scheduled for Monday.
Customers and some business owners did not make it to the market, as major markets in the ancient city of Kano commercial were also almost empty.
Ahmad Abacha, a businessman at the city’s major textile market, Kantin Kwari, told our reporter that some business owners did not open their shops as they could not make it to the market.
Muhammad Isa, a private school teacher, said “Many of our pupils could not make it school especially those whose parents had no means of acquiring private mobility.”
Most streets in the city have been deserted, and only private cars, buses, taxis, motorcycles, and trucks are plying the roads.
Hundreds of people resorted to trekking some kilometers to their destinations exposing the city’s poor public transport service.
Armed men were seen moving around the major roads of the city to forestall any break-down of law and order.
The Managing Director of the KAROTA, Alhaji Baffa Babba Dan’agundi has on has threatened to take drastic action against the operators, saying that they would regret their action.
It could also be recalled that the operators in February 2021, went on a three-day strike to resist paying a daily levy of N100.
