OLORUNDARE ENIMOLA, Lagos
Comrade Idris Oluwaseun, the National President of Professional E-Hailing Drivers and Private Owners Association PEDPA, has said that an end has come to the era when drivers of LagRide in Lagos are scammed of their payments by passengers who use fake money transfer system to pay for commuting services and solutions to challenges associated with every financial transactions encountered by every member of the association and others.
The assurance was given by the National President at the unveiling and introduction of LooseChange online banking App in Lekki last Thursday, assuring members of the association that the new banking option is “faster, safe, modern and an easy way to transact with just your mobile phone. With Loosechange, you can send, receive, spend, and share money with your phone number - with or without the internet.”
He said, “I want to use this medium to introduce to the community of e-hailing drivers at large that we have a payment solution that will address fake money transfers to the community of e-hailing drivers. That loosechange app is here to give us merchant accounts for all our members. So the case where you do not get alerts when a customer transfers money into your account after service delivery is going to be a thing of the past. Today we have an application that once you download, you are registered as a merchant account holder under the umbrella of professional e-hailing drivers and private owners association, led by Comrade Idris Oluwaseun.
“Be assured that from that moment the customer transfers money to your account, you are getting your money instantly except the transaction is not initiated and your business is also secured. This is part of our effort at ensuring enhanced ease of doing business for our members and reducing complexities involved.” He added.
Comrade Oluwaseun also took the time to appreciate the Lagos State Government for responding to the plea of residents, especially commuters by taking the initiative to create the LagosRide, stating, “I want to congratulate our Governor Sanwo-Olu particularly for taking the initiative and making us beneficiaries of the scheme, but I want to appeal to him to increase the number of the vehicles from the initial 1000 fleets to 5000 fleets as he promised, looking at the huge success this has brought to many who initially cannot feed themselves but are able to do that now and also feed others, ensuring also that the remaining large number of our members get to benefit from this scheme.”
Adding, “this is responsive governance and as an association we have already identified with the Governor and to deepen our relationship with your government, we appeal for more of these vehicles, knowing there is no need for better when the best is already available.
“At Federal Governmental level, we want to Congratulate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his election and particularly for his victory at the Supreme Court, asking him to support and encourage the State government to give us more fleets of LagRide and the delivery of the Compressed Natural Gas CNG vehicles to our members who are currently struggling to stay afloat the challenges posed by the removal of fuel subsidy and we will be able to crash down the cost of transportation drastically.” Olwaseun averred.
He appealed to all the members to identify with the loosechange app, pointing out that the link will be sent to the entire cluster units in Lagos State
Michael Okoye, the CEO of LooseChange App, said the App was created to help micro and medium scale businesses, e-hailing drivers, small and medium merchants to carry out payments, easily, seamlessly and in real time, “we created the solution to enable businesses, merchants, to be able to accept payment with multiple options, for them to be able to take care of themselves develop themselves and also make it easy for them to have access to their cash in real time.
“Our application is running with the Best Global practices when it comes to financial transactions. We are also working with the best companies and the best financial institutions like Coral P and DFD, which are some of the best we have in Nigeria. And with that, there'll be no issues. There will be no fraud, there will be no problems getting or collecting your money or accessing your money easily.
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