Truck Call up technology set for deployment at Lekki Port axis

-- The Lagos State

and the promoters of the Call Up Technology (Traffic Management system) have concluded plans to deploy the truck ‘Call Up System’ to the Lekki-Epe axis with a view to managing the traffic building up in the port corridor.

Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting held at the office of the Lekki Free Zone Development Company, the Lagos State Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Seun Osiyemi, said the government cannot wait to start the management of the traffic situation along the axis following the indiscriminate parking by both container trucks and tankers on both sides of the road.

Osiyemi, who went on a tour of the Free Zone, also said the government is considering the use of the waterways to evacuate bulk, dry and liquid from the port.

According to Osiyemi, the government cannot do everything, adding that companies operating within the Zone must join hands with the government to open the axis as soon as possible.

“That is the only way we can get to the promise land, if we wait for government, what happens is that the longer we wait the more moribund this place becomes and then the revenue you are trying to get at will not come.

“You see, sometimes you throw out Money to make money, what are the prognosis there, the prognosis is that this place will expand and blow out,” Osiyemi stated.

Similarly, the Deputy Managing Director of the Lekki Free Zone Development Company, Mrs. Bolatito Ajibode, said the Zone was the only place left in the axis for investors to acquire land as over 3,000 hectares are available for use in the zone.

Also speaking during the tour, the Managing Director of the Call Up Technology, Mr. Tim Koleolu, said agos operators of terminals with truck parks within the red zone - from Eleko Junction inwards - will be unbundled on the Callup system for ease of administration and proper traffic management.

Koleolu also said the company’s hardwares have been deployed at the Lekki Deep Seaport, Lekki Free Trade Zone and all the approved parks that are ready for operation.