A strike action is now looming over the poor traffic situation in Apapa as some stakeholders, especially port users have resolved to protest against the frustrating traffic situation in the area.
Sources close to one of the stakeholders said the threat to embark on the strike action was informed by the need to draw the attention of the federal government to the deplorable situation of things in Apapa, which has made it impossible for business to thrive since last one month.
The traffic situation in Apapa is not strange to those of us who do business in Apapa. It has been there over the years. What is strange, however, is that in the last one month it has become worst. All the roads leading to Apapa are totally blocked. You cannot drive or enter public transport to Apapa and if you are in Apapa, you cannot easily come out. No road is free. This is because both side of the roads have been blocked by antiquated vehicles. It is terrible. We cannot continue like this. That is why we are mobilising our people. Once we are through, we shall embark on strike action to ginger the federal government into action by addressing the root cause of the gridlock in Apapa , the stakeholder who did not want his print said.
He revealed that the huge money lost to the gridlock in Apapa cannot be quantified in naira and kobo as everyone who does business in Apapa is counting the losses every second he spends on the road instead of his duty post or business points.
Adding its voice to the huge cost of the traffic snarl in Apapa, the umbrella body of freight forwarders in the country, the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) said the country loses over N5 billion daily to the gridlock in Apapa.
ANLCA National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kayode Farinto said the association would embark on an indefinite strike if government failed to immediately fix and relocate tank farms sited around the port area.
The federal government is not exempted in these daily records of losses as revenues generated by some government agencies have begun to drop at an estimate of over N5 billion daily. This is as a result of the traffic gridlock. The traffic gridlock along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Wharf Road, Marine Bridge, Ijora is so unbearable that it has become a nightmare coming and going out of Apapa. If nothing is done, we may have no other option than to withdraw our services from the ports in order to compel the federal government to live up to her constitutional responsibilities to the citizens. All these above mentioned entering routes into Apapa have become den for armed robbers and hideouts for them to perpetrate their evil acts, he said.
According to him, some stakeholders have at various times been dispossessed of their valuables and cash at gun points while entering or exiting Apapa in the traffic snarl that has now become a daily occurrence.
While blaming tanker and trailer drivers for their uncivilized and uncultured attitude for the gridlock, Farinto said ANLCA would constitute a special task force that would curtail the excesses of the tanker drivers and proffer short-term solution to the traffic snarl in the port city.
We should all recall that last year when the Navy constituted a special task force, there was sanity on the roads. We call on the federal government and Lagos State government as a matter of urgency to organize a vibrant task force to monitor the various outlets into and outside the ports and to caution all the tanker drivers. In as much as the situation is getting out of hand, we call on the incoming administration of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) to find a lasting solution to this menace , he added.
Farinto recalled that during the electioneering campaign, the Vice President-elect, Professor Yemi Oshinbajo promised to look into the Apapa traffic matter and explained that the new administration will relocate the tank farms in and around the port environment to somewhere around Lekki-Epe Expressway.相关的主题文章：


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