Harboursandport.com: Lagos --Stakeholders in the maritime industry have said that planned
reconstruction of the failed roads in the port vicinities of Apapa and its
environment is not the solution to the chaotic traffic situation in the area.
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| The problematic Apapa traffic gridlock |
Reacting to the recent information from the Vice President, Yemi
Osinbajo, that the process of reconstruction of the roads would commence in two
weeks, stakeholders warned that until government work at achieving an
inter-modal transportation in the port areas, the traffic situation would
persist.
Speaking on the issue,
National President of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents,
ANLCA, Tony Iju Nwabunike, stated: “Look at Apapa technically, there is no much room for improvement, the
roads are bad, the bridges are tiny, they are having two way-in two way-out.
“So, going out from Apapa is the same
thing, coming in from Tin-Can is the same thing having two wages all over the
places and they didn’t plan it properly. So the train station need to work,
they need to begin to think about 3rd bridge to enter Apapa,
yes, very important.
“The permanent measure is that there
must be another system; there must be a serious networking of roads for people
getting in and out of Apapa, then the third one is to decentralize the Lagos
port.”
Similarly, Managing Director of Talod
Oceanair Freight Limited,
Alhaji Hakeem Olarinwaju, said that
the reconstruction would not ease the congestion but only reduce it.
Olarinwaju explained that the way the
ports are designed, the roads leading to and from the ports are not meant for
fuel tankers.
“We have Dangote factory packaging
cement inside there. The trucks are moving, that is in addition to what is on
the road, that is number two. The way Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc was designed
was not to bring in trucks to their facility but to use train,” he concluded.
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