Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has threatened to name those benefitting from the perennial traffic gridlock and disorderliness experienced along the Apapa corridor in the state.
Sanwo-Olu stated this on Wednesday in Lagos while commending the Nigerian Ports Authority for the new E-Call Up system for trucks going to the ports.
The Apapa area of the state is notorious for chaos over the haphazard operations of container-laden trucks around the seaports.
At an event in Lagos today, the governor said, “We will name and shame them. We will bring out their names, be it a corporate organisation, be it a company, be it a Lagos State officer, be it a police officer, whoever it is, be it a union that will say that the solution that we have brought about will not work.
“They will pass and answer to the citizen of Nigeria and the citizen of Lagos State and the citizen of Nigeria. We will deliver them to the public courts for them to peer that we are approximately seriousness; we can't condone the recklessness and the carelessness that our residents have long past via.
“And I need to use this opportunity to commend the Management of NPA because they have worked with us on this time table. So, my task is to others who have no longer signed on to this exceptional column system.”
NPA Managing Director, Hadiza Bala-Usman, had assured port users that e-call up gadget might address irresponsible parking of trucks on port get entry to roads in Apapa.
The e-call up system become designed for the control of truck motion and get admission to to and from the Lagos Ports Complex and the Tin Can Island Ports, Apapa.
The Apapa hall were a nightmare for street customers and Sanwo-Olu had final year said the Lagos State Government had started out the method of taking up the operations of the Presidential Task Force on Port Decongestion that were managing the traffic gridlock in the area.
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