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Task force gives truck drivers on Lagos roads 5-day ultimatum to leave

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The task force on the decongestion of the Apapa gridlock has handed a six-day ultimatum to container-bearing truck drivers to vacate all roads in Lagos and return to holding bays or face the wrath of the law.

 

The task force, which met in Lagos on Wednesday, warned that, from Sunday, September 23, the container-bearing truck drivers and other articulated vehicles should on their own move to the holding bay established by the terminal operators or be forced to do so.

 

The chairman of the task force and the commander of NNS Beecroft, Commodore Okon Eyo, who spoke to journalists after a meeting, said the decision was necessary to decongest the roads and open them up to other motorists.

 

He said, “Before now, we have been having series of meetings to see how these things could be resolved; some of the things we will do is that we are going to return all empty containers that are on trucks now to the holding bays.

 

Container-bearing trucks should no longer proceed directly to the port because that is not the best practice.  From the holding bays, the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the terminal operators  and shipping agencies should work together to generate call-ups from the holding bays.”

 

Eyo said that, henceforth container-bearing trucks would not just get to roads and begin to access the port, adding that the operatives on the road would be checking the call-ups to ensure that only trucks that were called would be on the road.

 

He said that, before now, the holding bays were not ready and time had to be provided for the terminal operators to develop their holding bays, hence, the decision that the trucks bearing empty containers must vacate the roads.

 

He said, if the trucks fail to comply with the directives, they would be sanctioned, adding that, “I do not want to think that they will not comply because severe sanctions will be meted out on them.”

 

Eyo assured residents that respite was on the way for commuters who struggle day and night through the heavy gridlock caused by trucks on the road.

 

He noted that the task force has put machinery in place for the evacuation of trucks that refuse to leave for the holding bays, and erring truck owners would have to pay huge fines before they get their trucks back.

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