TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF WORKS AND TRANSPORT

Transport department is one of the departments in Ministry of Works and Transport Ebonyi state. The department is saddles with various responsibilities of coordinating, regulation and supervising all the operation of the various transport sector in \Ebonyi state which also includes motor part accreditation, inspection and registration and as well as implement all the state governments policies and equally ensure that all the state roads are free from traffic jam.

The transport department has three unit, they are as follows:

1. Vehicle Inspection Unit (VIO), which performs the following duties.
2. Inspection and issuance of road worthiness certificates to all vehicles.
3. Maintenance of sanity on our various roads and highways by ensuring that all the vehicles plying on our roads are road worthy at all times.

• Training and testing of driver’s for driver license.

1. Organizing seminal and public lecture to motorist and general public in order to educate them on the traffic rules and carrying out inspection to accident vehicles.

2. Motor park registration units: This unit ensures that all the motor parks in the state are registered accordingly and also carrying out inspection to the various motor parks in the state to ensure that they are met with standard requirement.

3. Transport Registration Unit: this unit ensures that all the commercial vehicles that operates within the state is registered with the ministry, including tricycles and motorcycles. The unit keeps the appropriate registered number of vehicles in the ministry’s database for security and record purpose