NACORP Wants Govt To Regulate Ride-hailing Companies

National Coalition of Ridesharing Professionals (NACORP), has called on the government to come to their aids in regulating the activities and operations of the ride-hailing companies.

The NACORP Deputy Coordinator, Administration, Fred Aleburu, who addressed journalists on behalf of the group, also called for the profiling of the riders (passengers) for security purposes.

Aleburu said the companies had refused to review its fare as the companies continued to charge N300 for a trip despite the daunting economic situation in the country.

He accused the companies of being insensitive to their plight despite all the efforts to find a lasting solution to the problem.

The deputy Coordinator noted that he wondered why the service providers were only interested in profiling only drivers and reluctant to request the valid means of identification of their customers (riders).

He vowed that they would cripple the operation of the companies by subjecting them to untold hardship and untimely death.

“Since the inception of Uber and Bolt in Nigeria, they have refused to profile their riders. We have been on several protests and yet our drivers are dying. When passengers enter our vehicles, they kill the drivers and in the end, both Uber and Bolt will not have valid identity documents of so-called passengers.

“This is simple; let us share valid and equal identity with the rider so that when they perpetrate evil, we will be able to know who did what. Secondly, the fare has been reduced so much in this harsh economy and that is what we are facing right now.

“Uber and Bolt can give you a trip of N300 as drop-off when we are buying fuel at a very high rate and we are servicing our car at a high cost. There is no servicing the of the vehicle now that is less than N10,000.”

The drivers are calling for an immediate upward review of e-cab fares to reflect the current economic realities in the country.