NPA begins work on Tin-Can Port access road
Lagos — To consolidate the gains recorded in the recent dislodgement of illegal check/extortion points and shanties on the Tin Can Island Port access road, the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has resumed work on the Port access road.
Speaking during a spot check on the project, the Managing Director of NPA, Mohammed Bello Koko, said: “Our zero tolerance for all forms of impediments to free flow of traffic is no fluke, and we are poised to consolidate the gains we have recorded first in Apapa and now TinCan. We are grateful to the Minister of Marine ANDBlue Economy His Excellency Adegboyega Oyetola (CON) and the Lagos State Governor for the tremendous support we have received in this regard”.
“Ports access roads are international corridors, which means traffic gridlock along such sensitive road networks apart from negating port productivity is an international embarrassment that requires the synergy of all stakeholders to tackle sustainably.
“Although the causes of the gridlock are rooted in factors external to NPA, we have a duty as the gateway to the national economy to take the frontline role in tackling this menace.”
On the menace of refuse debris blocking the drainages, Bello Koko said “although i have directed our relevant in-house department to commence desilting of the drainages and clearance of the refuse, we will enlist the cooperation and intensify synergy with Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and the Federal Ministry of Works under whose purview waste and road management resides to arrest the ugly trend”.
It will be recalled that the Mohammed Bello Koko management at the NPA had recently received the commendation of the National Association of Government Approved
Freight Forwarders, NAGAFF, for clearing the perennial traffic gridlock that hitherto made ingress and egress of Lagos Ports of Apapa and Tin-Can difficult.