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 go and answer to the citizen of Nigeria and the citizen of Lagos State and the citizen of Nigeria. We will bring them to the public courts for them to see that we are about seriousness; we cannot condone the recklessness and the carelessness that our citizens have gone through.

“And I want to use this opportunity to commend the Management of NPA because they have worked with us on this agenda. So, my challenge is to others who have not signed on to this wonderful column system.”

NPA Managing Director, Hadiza Bala-Usman, had assured port users that e-call up system would address irresponsible parking of trucks on port access roads in Apapa.

The e-call up system was designed for the management of truck movement and access to and from the Lagos Ports Complex and the Tin Can Island Ports, Apapa.

The Apapa corridor had been a nightmare for road users and Sanwo-Olu had last year said the Lagos State Government had started the process of taking over the operations of the Presidential Task Force on Port Decongestion that had been managing the traffic gridlock in the area.

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.

naptu2:

That task force has been disbanded and the job handed over to the Lagos State Government.

The Navy, Police and other agencies have been ordered off the road and LASTMA has been made the lead agency for the exercise.

That's why there has been improvement, because the agencies that are now enforcing the new plan are local and it is easier to report, monitor and sanction them.

emmanuel596:
In a matter of weeks we will return to the same old cycle of shits

We will at stop nothing to ensure there is free flow of traffic on this corridor.
Therefore, enforcement will be continuous.

tiredoflife:
Oga the problem of the port is after the civil war
The FG focused more on the SW ports
Open all other ports and see lagos traffic dry off

jacoik:
since I have being following you, this is the best I have ever seen from you

Wickedfacts:


There are international airports in other states, why is it that passenger traffic in MM2 in Lagos is also more than others?

tiredoflife:


The sea port in Lagos brought about population explosion
U still don't understand how sea port volume increases traffic of people to a state