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As part of the measure to consolidate the gains recorded in the clearance of illegal check/extortion points and shanties resulting in traffic gridlock on Tin-Can Island Port access road, Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mr Muhammed Bello Koko resumes work on the port access road, yesterday.
Speaking on the sidelines of the unscheduled visit,
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 Tin-Can. We are grateful to the Honourable
Minister of Marine & Blue Economy Adegboyega Oyetola and the Lagos State
Governor for the tremendous support we have received in this regard.
"Ports access roads are international corridors,
which mean 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 front line role in tackling this
menace."
On the menace of refuse debris blocking the drainages,
he said: "Although i have directed our relevant in-house department to
commence desalting 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."
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