Harboursandport. Com: Lagos - Demand for N20
million by officials of Ogun State Government from a private investor for the
construction of a truck park at Ogere, made the investor back out of the deal.
Senior Adviser to the President of the
National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Adamu Danzaki, said that the
Union had reached an agreement with an Italian firm for the construction of the
Truck Transit Parks, TTP, to handle over 15,000 trucks that get into Lagos
daily.
Danzaki noted that the
Union, in agreement with both the Lagos and Ogun State Governments for the
construction of the TTP in Ogun state as a means of solving the traffic
gridlock in Apapa.
He pointed out that had
the facility which was conceptualized during the administration of Gbenga
Daniels in Ogun State, been completed, the present traffic gridlock in Lagos
would have been addressed.
According to him,
"The only way out is to go back to the Ogun state truck park, the Ogun
state government estimated the project to cost about N28 billion. We got
company that wanted to do the Private-Public-Partnership and build it but
unfortunately I due to some certain reason it was abandoned.
'We brought someone who
brought the money in dollars but they said he must have to pay what Ogun state
spent for sketch and the white man said N20 million for sketch when already l
have my sketch?
"He said Nigeria is
not serious and that is how he backed out of the project.
"I talked to the
commissioner, I met with the then-governor; I told them to complete this project
and your names will be written in gold because you are going to provide a lot
of jobs for people.
"He agreed with me
but the technocrats of his government said they need N20 million for the sketch
since the time of Gbenga Daniels. The plan is there, now nobody is doing
anything about it.
"Some people are
only thinking of the 10 per cent they are going to benefit; nobody is thinking
of the general interest of Nigerians.’’
First published in Vanguard
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