LAGOS – Chisco Transport Ltd, has assured the travelling public of safe and top-quality services on all its routes during the yuletide season and beyond.
Chisco Transport also lauded President Bola Tinubu for the gesture of subsidising inter-state luxury bus transport fares by 50 per cent this season, saying it would go a long way to improve inter-state travels among Nigerians.
The company, which has been one of the country’s frontrunners in long distance passenger transportation and logistics for over 45 years, recently inaugurated about four new branches in order to bring its services closer to its teeming customers.
A statement on Tuesday by Mr. Buchi Ochuba, Head of Business Operations, Chisco Transport, said that some of the new branches, which have helped to boost service delivery this yuletide season were in Awka, Enugu, and on Okota Road in Lagos.
Ochuba added that Chisco Transport has also deployed to various routes nationwide the newly procured brand-new luxury and mini-buses with the latest innovative features in the industry.
This, he said was in addition to embarking on a comprehensive maintenance of the existing fleet of buses in order to ensure they are in roadworthy shape for trips across Nigeria and the Lagos-Cotonou-Lome-Accra international routes.
Apart from advanced safety features likereal-time Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking and efficient safety systems, Ochuba emphaissed the new-look Chisco Transport fleet, featuring state-of-the-art buses, had all it takes to guarantee that passengers travel in style with their comfort and safety prioritised this season.
He maintained that all these were part of the deliberate efforts to ensure seamless and comfortable bus and logistic services to the customers during the 2024 yuletide season and thereafter.
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Ochuba, explained that the same commitment to ensuring safe and comfortable trips out of major cities and towns before Christmas, would also be deployed to return journeys in the new year.
He reiterated Chisco Transport’s resolve to sustain the high standards that have earned the company an enviable reputation, as well as continue investments in safety and comfort of travellers that had earned it the confidence of the travelling public and the auto journalists’ award.
He added: “We appreciate the fact that in adjudging Chisco Transport theTransport Company of the Year, Nigeria Automobile Journalists Association (NAJA) must have taken into consideration the high standards of our services, the over 50 new air-conditioned buses we procured recently, the new branches we inaugurated, our customer reward scheme and other investments we made to enhance passenger transportation and logistics.”
According to him, everything had been put in place by the management to make the teeming Chisco Transport customers all over Nigeria and on the international routes enjoy top-quality services.
Meanwhile, the company has commended President Tinubu for the gesture of subsidising inter-state luxury bus transport fares by 50 percent for traavellers.
Drawing attention to the importance of infrastructure to the road transportation business, the statement further commended the president for the appreciable allocations to the sector in the 2025 budget proposal to the National Assembly.
The statement said: “We, therefore, wish to urge members of his cabinet to put in more deliberate efforts to help the President attain his vision with speedy and prudent execution inspired by patriotism.”
On the current sharp increase in fares across the routes, the transport company blamed the situation on rising costs of maintaining the buses, as well as on the high pump prices of diesel and petrol.
It howveer, said that at the peak of every Christmas season, long distance buses were almost empty during return trips, which leads to high fares.
