The demand comes after the tragic murder of three e-hailing drivers reportedly registered on the Uber and Bolt platforms. This development comes in the wake of a call by the President of the Amalgamated Union of App-based Transporters of Nigeria, Comrade Adedamola Adeniran, for e-hailing companies like Uber and Bolt to use the National Identification Number (NIN) to verify passengers. In an exclusive statement released to Technext by an Uber spokesperson, the platform said, “ Our Incident Response Team has also investigated the matter of the three drivers and could not find any information to confirm that these drivers operated on the Uber platform.” In response to a Technext query into the matter, the ride-hailing platform said its Incident Response Team conducted an investigation into the matter and found no evidence to confirm that these drivers operated on the Uber platform. In a recent turn of events, Uber has distanced itself from the tragic incidents involving three e-hailing drivers who were reportedly shot dead in Port Harcourt and Abuja recently.
