The Motorcycle Operators Union of Nigeria (MOUN) has faulted the Delta government’s plans to establish another motocyclists’ union.

The Delta government had given approval to the Commercial Motorcycle and Tricycle Operators Association (COMTOA) to coordinate and supervise the activities of motorcycle and tricycle operators in the state henceforth.

The secretary to the state government (SSG), Kingsley Emu, who announced this on Saturday in a statement, said COMTOA would commence the management and collection of levies from motorcycle and tricycle riders beginning from January 8.

Reacting on Sunday in a statement, MOUN president, Julius Bobi, called on security authorities to rein in the Delta government to avoid anarchy.

“The law is at our bosom and we shouldn’t allow the secretary to the Delta state government to breach it,” he said. “We shall be protected by section 24 of the Trade Unions Act. So we’re soliciting that he should be called to order before there’s breakdown of law and  order and its attendance consequences.”

Mr Bobi maintained that the issue had long been judiciously settled in MOUN’s favour before Justice C.E. Achilefu of the Udu Divion of the Delta State High Court.

MOUN president, who condemned the latest move, described it as “an impunity and illegality taken too far by the Delta state government.”

“We’re commencing our operations on Monday to counter them,” Mr Bobi insisted.

The MOUN leader also cited a recent judgment of Justice Nelson Ogbuanya of the National Industrial Court, the Port Harcourt Division, ruling that the Corporate Affairs Commission by extant laws, lacked the power to register organisations under incorporated trustees, which had aims and objectives of a trade union.

He wondered where the Delta government derived its power to create a rival motorcycle union.

(NAN)