The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has said 200 security officers would be deployed to clear gridlocks on the access routes to Apapa and Tin-Can Ports.
The Minister said they will also ensure that trucks are not parked on the road.
The Media Assistant to the minister, Mrs Taiye Elebiyo-Edeni, said the minister disclosed this at a meeting with Maritime Stakeholders and the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) in Lagos.
“100 men at Tin Can and Apapa to be stationed there every day because Nigerians don’t obey until there are consequences for actions. NPA, Shippers Council must have a level of funding to resolve these challenges.
“We need to talk to Shippers and Traders especially those around Warri, to see how they can be using Warri Port, so that Lagos Ports will be decongested, we can get security to follow the cargoes to that area, so that traders from Aba, Onitsha that are ready to use that Port can go there,” Edeni quoted the minister as saying.
Edeni said at the meeting, the minister disclosed that there should be a steering committee headed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Magdalene Ajani, to sit monthly until the challenges are over.
Other members of the committee would be from the Nigerian Ports Authority, Nigerian Shippers Council, MWUN, Road Safety and Lagos State Government.
The Deputy Secretary-General of MWUN, Abudu Eroje, at the meeting said the union planned a strike because of the hardship workers faced everyday trying to go to work because of the gridlock.
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