The Presidential Task Force on Apapa Gridlock has said it would on Monday start impounding deviant and idle articulated vehicles on Lagos bridges and roads.
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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers on Tuesday urged Federal and Lagos State Governments to check the excesses of security personnel controlling trucks loading at the Apapa Port.
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Lagos State Zonal Council, has expressed worry over the government’s continued deployment of a military taskforce to check Apapa gridlock.
Lagos State Government has acquired a large land at Ojo for construction of a trailer park to tackle gridlock in Apapa and other areas caused by indiscriminate parking of articulated vehicles.
Oshinowo told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that growth rate was not factored early enough to keep up with the recent development.
Tola Faseru, National President, Cashew Farmers Association of Nigeria, says that exporters of agricultural produce and other goods are losing about 10 billion dollars annually to the Apapa gridlock challenge.
The Lagos State Government on Monday announced the suspension of approval for development of tank farms in Apapa as part of its renewed effort to restore sanity completely as well as fashion out immediate and long term solution along the Oshodi-Apapa corridor and prevent a repeat of the chaos caused by containerized trucks and tankers parked on the road.
The Lagos State Police Command and other relevant agencies are to begin ‘Operation Restore Sanity’ on Friday concerning the Apapa gridlock, the State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, said on Thursday.
The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan, made the assertion in Lagos on the chaotic traffic situation in the state.
The company’s Traffic Manager, Mohammdu Rabiu, revealed this at a stakeholders meeting called at the instance of the Western Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy in Lagos.