Kwara state, amidst rising cost of fuel in the country, is set to flood the streets with commercial electric tricycles expected to ease transportation problem in the state.
The plan for this was revealed at the stakeholders meeting held on Electric Tricycles Acquisition Scheme in Ilorin, the state capital.
Speaking at the event, the Director-General of the EV Mass Transit Solutions, James Clinton, said 5,000 of the electric tricycles would be made available to the state.
He however said the project will start with 500 of the tricycles as a pilot scheme in Ilorin, the state capital, before it would be extended to other parts of the state.
Clinton who described the programme as first of its kind in Nigeria by his organisation disclosed that it would fully take off in the state by December.
Source: Voice of Nigeria