The government has decided to hand-over the management and operation of the country’s mass transport system to Metro-Mass Transit, a newly formed holding company, sidestepping Omnibus Service Authority (OSA), which was largely tipped to take over the mass transport.

Though no specific reasons have been attributed to this drastic change in policy, reports reaching the INDEPENDENT indicate that, OSA will instead be asked to concentrate on its traditional routing of rural-urban transportation.

Speaking in an interview, the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Mass Transport, Mr. Osafo Mensah, indicated that government has put in place a mechanism to identify areas of collaboration with OSA to ensure the effective management of the mass public transport system.

He, however, denied the suggestion that the decision to create a new company for the operation of the mass transport was meant to seal the doom of the debt saddled OSA.