Okada Ban: A Challenge In Lagos —NIPOST

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The Postmaster-General of the Federation, Mallam Ibrahim Mori-Baba, has said that the ban on use of motorcycles on some roads in Lagos State is posing a challenge to NIPOST’s operations in the state.

He disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

“The challenges have to do with what presently obtains in Lagos State. We are not supposed to use a motorcycle that is less than 200cc and that is a big challenge. “It came up and we have no option. Most of our motorcycles are out of business. We now have to use private buses and so it is a very big challenge.

“When this law was not in place, the other challenge that we had is natural and everybody is also into it. It has to do with traffic, but otherwise we have been meeting up to 80 percent of our service delivery. ”

He told NAN that NIPOST had installed scanners to detect explosive devices in parcels and documents in its offices.

Mori-Baba added that beyond the scanners, NIPOST officials had legal backing to open suspected mails even in the absence of the owner.

“If they are ordinary mails, we may not subject them to scanning, but if it is anything to do with parcels, we will examine it.

“And if we also suspect that a mail is carrying something, even by our law we have the right to open the mail and examine it even in your absence and then repackage it and send it to where it is supposed to go,” he stated.

The Postmaster-General told NAN that NIPOST had zoned the country to ensure efficient service delivery, saying that letters within Lagos zone were delivered within the same day.

He said that the zoning made it possible for some letters to be delivered within 24 hours, while others were delivered within 72 hours.

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He said that as part of its diversification project, NIPOST now had a workshop where it produced household items.

The essence of such production, he explained, was to meet public needs as well as to boost NIPOST revenue base.

Ibrahim Mori-Baba also disclosed that ICT had improved NIPOST’s service delivery.

He said that though the revolution in IT had resulted in a decline in the exchange of personal mails, it had helped to improve the operations of NIPOST.

“IT has actually improved service delivery not only in the postal service, but we think that we are benefiting more.

“Being a jet period, everybody wants to get to know what is happening and this has added value to our system.”

He noted that IT had helped NIPOST in tracking and tracing, especially registered parcels and documents.

“When your letter is registered or you have a parcel or document that has a bar code, then we’ll be able to trace where it is, the status of it and when it is delivered.

“This is an added value and this is as a result of the IT.

“In essence, while we think that one window is being shut, several windows are being opened as a result of the IT revolution.”

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