Lawmaker cries out over Apapa traffic gridlock

Posted by admin House, Legislature Saturday, March 17th, 2012

The lawmaker representing Apapa 1 constituency, Lagos, Hon. Mufutau Egberongbe, has described the near static traffic situation on the Tin Can Apapa Wharf highway as socially and economically suicidal.

Speaking with reporters yesterday on the daily gridlock at the Apapa axis of Lagos state, Egberongbe said the situation is caused by the indiscriminate parking of tankers and trailers on the highway and bridge. “Over 3, 000 of them come into Apapa on a daily basis to load petroleum products”.

“The way tankers are parked with reckless abandon on the Tin Can Apapa Wharf highway, it has virtually turned into a parking lot and no other road user can pass that road, it is not about time wasting, it is about static movement.”

He also blamed the corrupt tendencies of officials of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) whose activities slow down movement of tankers and trailers so that they would be made to pay more demurrage, “it is a systemic attitude at securing demurrage to the detriment of our people”, Egberongbe said.

“What we need do is that this corrupt tendency should be eliminated and the activities of these Port concessionaires should be adequately looked into such that their activities will be expedited from what it is now”, he said.

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