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The Osun State Government on Wednesday sensitised transport operators, car homeowners, drivers, riders and different stakeholders on the state’s Integrated Transport, Traffic and Park Management System Law, 2026, with emphasis on decreasing a number of taxation, curbing unlawful collections and enhancing highway security.
The sensitisation programme, organised by the state Ministry of Transportation, introduced collectively transport union leaders, park managers, industrial car operators, authorities officers and different stakeholders to clarify the provisions of the regulation and their tasks below the brand new transport administration framework.
Addressing individuals, the Accounting Officer for the Ministry of Transport Osun State, Olumide Taiwo, stated the regulation was designed to determine a extra organised, clear and technology-driven transport system, including that the engagement would assist operators perceive each their obligations and the protections out there to them.
“The purpose of this sensitisation is therefore not simply to announce a new law. It is to ensure that the people who will work with the law every day — drivers, riders, vehicle owners, transport associations, park managers and other stakeholders — understand its provisions, their responsibilities and, equally importantly, the protections and benefits available to them,” the Permanent Secretary stated.
He defined that the brand new framework offers for the registration and identification of business operators and autos, the usage of permitted parks and loading factors, correct show of quantity plates, roadworthiness checks and improved visitors administration.
The regulation additionally offers for the usage of know-how, together with digital identification, QR and NFC credentials, digital cost information, cameras and Automatic Number Plate Recognition techniques, to assist verification and enforcement.
The ministry stated the Daily Operation Levy can be linked to verified industrial operations, with the purpose of distinguishing between days autos function commercially and days they continue to be inactive. The framework can also be meant to scale back arbitrary assessments and a number of collections.
Also talking, the Acting Chairman of the Osun Internal Revenue Service, Solanke Hamzat, stated the reform aligned with efforts to make tax administration less complicated and extra clear whereas addressing a number of taxation.
“If you look at the 2025 NTA, that’s the Nigerian Tax Act, Tax Administration, you’ll see that what we are trying to do is to bring tax to be more open, transparent, and eradicate multiple taxation. So simplicity is the key word,” Hamzat stated.
He stated the brand new system would additionally assist the federal government cut back income leakages by stopping ticket duplication and different irregularities related to income assortment.
“Almost all the collections, the revenue of the government, go directly into government coffers. That’s number one. It will block all leakages, people duplicating tickets and all kinds of antics that people play in terms of collecting government revenue,” he stated.
Hamzat added that digital cost information and official receipts would assist shield transport operators from repeated calls for for cost after they’d fulfilled their obligations.
“Once you have paid and you have your digital receipt, nobody can come and harass you again and say, ‘Bring money,’ and all these touts that harass people on the road will now be eradicated,” he stated.
On the implementation timeline, Hamzat stated the regulation was already in impact and required industrial car operators to register inside 60 days of the governor signing it into regulation.
“The law is already in effect because in one of the provisions of the law it says that sixty days from the time the governor signs this law into an Act, all road users who are operating commercial vehicles must be duly registered. So it’s already counting,” he stated.
