TransRoyal Courier, leading courier company in Nigeria has given car and motor-cycles to its members of staff who have distinguished themselves in the course of their duties to the company.
In an elaborate ceremony held in its head office in Lagos recently, Ismail Delupe, head of bank operations was handed over the keys to a car while Kenneth Amalu, Hosiah Fawolere, Cosmos Judah, Mutui Oladokun and Michael Pedro each went home with a motor-cycle.
Polly Ofido , executive director told Nigeria CommunicationsWeek that the beneficiaries of motor-cycles will use the bikes to render service to the company for one year after which the motor bikes become theirs, while workers that will be given cars will use the car for the company for three years before they take over possession as their personal cars. He said the scheme will be an annual event which will be operated on the basis of five people from the courier department of the company and two others from the marketing benefiting from the scheme every year.
The aim of the exercise according to Ofido is to motivate and encourage hard working staff of the company who have gone thick and thin with the company.’ Some of them have been with us even when the going was rough’, Ofido said.
TransRoyal Courier, a fast growing courier company and a major player for that matter had as its pioneer managing director, the late Obiorah Okeke who was until his death the president of Anco.
Ofido, executive director of the company has been in the courier business for over twenty-two years and also works as consultant to many courier firms. He said that the strength of the courier company lies on its reputable clients saying that out of twenty five banks in the country, the firm enjoys the patronage of eleven of the banks. Again, he said the staff of the company are all committed and complemented by a good board of directors while making a special reference to Chief E.C.Nwandu,company’s chairman, a retired deputy postmaster general of the federation.
The courier firm is into haulage and logistics, overnight delivery of equipment and parcels, bulk delivery for banks registrars even as he hinted that the network of the company is superb as it has presence in virtually all the state capitals and major cities in the country.
On why some of the banks have refused to pay some of the courier firms that handled bulk deliveries for those banks, Ofido said that their major clients are banks and that they are not owed a kobo by any of their bank customers. The reason he said is when banks that contracted the job are not satisfied with the job done by courier firms.
The executive director maintained that TransRoyal Courier ably piloted by Lady Vivian Okeke, managing director of the company is at home with competition even as he pointed out that competition is healthy for the courier industry. He said that most members of the firm’s management team are courier professionals who know their bearing in courier business. He said ‘Without competition, every body will be operating at their own pace, but with competition, there will be improvement in the quality of service delivered by courier firms.’
He also lamented the activities of illegal courier operators who are bent on spoiling the courier business by undercutting the market and making their services available at rock- bottom prices which service most of the time they fail to deliver.
Ofido flayed the harassment of courier operators by government operatives, who they encounter in the process of carrying out their duties,
Those he said include NDLEA, Police, LASTMA officers who they encounter on the way. The state of our roads, Ofido said is deplorable thereby causing unnecessary delay in the movement of goods and services even as he complained the dearth of aircraft in the country that are supposed to enhance courier delivery.
