{"id":14392,"date":"2015-06-17T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14392"},"modified":"2015-06-17T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:23:42","slug":"keke-ban-in-owerri-ripples-over-ownership-of-new-metro-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14392","title":{"rendered":"Keke Ban In Owerri: Ripples Over Ownership Of New Metro Taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=14393\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/keke1.jpg\" alt=\"keke1\" width=\"938\" height=\"703\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/keke1.jpg 938w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/keke1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Against the backdrop of  the  plan  to  stop commercial  tricycle operators otherwise  known as Keke from operating on municipal roads, the ownership of the newly  introduced Metro Taxi scheme to replace the  tricycle operators is raising concern  among  Imolites.<br \/>\nThe media  is  awash  with  news of the planned  scrapping of keke transport services in Owerri Municipality  in the next  100 days.<br \/>\nThe State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha was said to have made the disclosure recently.<br \/>\nAs divergent views continue to trail the planned  action, reports have it that  residents of the state are  eagerly waiting  to  know  the identity of  those  behind  the  new Metro Taxi scheme likely to  take  over keke operators job.<br \/>\nTrumpeta learnt  that  the heightened tension over the  ownership  and  operation of  the  Metro taxi reached  anxious  stages when unconfirmed reports  revealed  that  the  new Taxi Scheme  is  not  only a private sector  initiative but  also  has  no  inputs from  government agency,  like  Ministry of  Transport.<br \/>\nIt was  gathered  that  a  top  political office  holder in the  state (names withheld)  who wields enormous  influence  coupled with his  financial muscles is strongly behind the  project.  This newspaper  was  also  informed  that  the  interest  of  the  owners  may  have forced  the state  government to  ban keke completely from the  municipality. According to details concerning the mini taxi schemes, the operators  are renowned partakers in  transport  business and  may  have been involved in the course of expanding its  growing economic empire.<br \/>\nAccording to sources, any operator willing to abandon his keke for  the Suzuki-made four-seater metro taxi will cough out above  N1m  to  be  part  of  hire-purchase system of  payment.<br \/>\nIt was  learnt  that  the  owners with  linkage with government officials want to recoup  all  monies  invested  in the project.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the backdrop of the plan to stop commercial tricycle operators otherwise known as Keke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14394,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14392\/revisions\/14394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}