Truck owners and freight forwarders at the Tin Can Island and Apapa ports have threatened to down tools on Monday barring a last minute intervention.

The truck owners under the auspices of the Amalgamation of Trucking Associations with Other Stakeholders in Maritime Industry (ATOSMI) are protesting the deplorable condition of Apapa roads.

A statement signed by ATOSMI chairman, Comrade Victor Nnyosum, lamented that the state of the Tin Can/Apapa roads was responsible for the destruction of trucks, goods and even loss of lives.

Nnyosum noted that their resolution to down tools had been sent to the director-general of NIMASA, Dr Dakuku Perterside; executive secretary, Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Hassan Bello; and managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hajia Hadiza Bala Usman.

The workers stated that the strike would last till the Apapa roads get fixed by the government.

In a related development, the national publicity secretary of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Dr Kayode Farinto, has declared ANLCA’s full support for the withdrawal of services by the port workers.

According to the Sun, a similar notice of strike action over the state of the Apapa roads had been sent to the government by another group, the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF).

The letters threatening strike action is said to have prompted the Comptroller General of Customs, Colonel Hameed Ali, to request a meeting to appease the groups.

Source:
http://www.autoreportng.com/2017/05/truck-owners-freight-forwarders-protest.html

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The monies Tin Can Island generates alone runs into billions

The Abule Egba flyover has been completed and it looks amazing

Ambode really needs to prioritise the projects involving commercial hubs

Eko o ni baje o!

Very useless government. They make so much revenue from apapa port yet d road is d worst in Lagos. I ply d road almost every day and I pity d life we live in Lagos. Thank God for d protest 2day.

God punish the FG for abandoning that road that generates billions for them....I cant take my car to that place

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Even with this kind topography, the still make the road standard...




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NPA and fraud and waste are too much. Why exactly do people need to threaten the Feder as l government into action. It's not like they don't make money on this port.

See our roads...

THEY SHOULD CLOSE DOWN THIS COUNTRY SELF

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What exactly is our problem?...Is it Stubbornness or Negligence?

Meanwhile, Joe Igbokwe still blames Jonathan for the deplorable state of that road on his Facebook page.


Useless government!!

The roads indeed need to attended to. They are in a very deplorable state.

My containers isi yet to Landi in an igbo man voice

Bureaucracy at the federal level has killed Fasola's drive for goal attainment .

Bureaucracy at the federal level has killed Fasola's drive for goal attainment .This is federal road for Christ sake.

Protesting by downing tools?...that's not as effective as using their trucks to bring the entire city to a standstill by choking off the main roads. How?...by having trucks conveniently breaking down at key points and others lining up behind and besides them... while others simply be driving slowly in circles. Results will come fast.

I believe this is Fashola's responsibility and not Ambode.

neoShinto:
The monies Tin Can Island generates alone runs into billions

The Abule Egba flyover has been completed and it looks amazing

Ambode really needs to prioritise the projects involving commercial hubs

Eko o ni baje o!

I think that road is a Federal road.

abeg make dose yeye driver live road make I pass..na dem dey destroy d road..Governor ambode no mind dem cos u don try. carry goooooo.....

If the government had provided good rail way system, you wouldn't see heavy trucks everywhere. Besides when was the last time the road was rehabilitated?

allrightsir:
after they spoit it by overloading their trucks and turning it to a parking lot?

This is really sad seeing the money this sector generates daily. Corruption is worse than cancer.

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Meanwhile, Joe Igbokwe still blames Jonathan for the deplorable state of that road on his Facebook page.


Useless government!!

Indeed d govt can really frustrate one to point of disillusionment.
It's well,even if it's not well.

The road is really terrible.

is it state a federal road?

Nigeria has an opportunity of crating an alternative route by opening up the calabar port but no they won't do that.

they rather prefer over loading that single apapa port and every day we keep hearing of many Nigerians losing their lives to falling trucks and containers

a country as large as Nigeria should be ashamed of her self to say she still have just one single port and yet we keep preaching economic growth and development

when china has even developed a computerised port.

I pity this country

neoShinto:
The monies Tin Can Island generates alone runs into billions

The Abule Egba flyover has been completed and it looks amazing

Ambode really needs to prioritise the projects involving commercial hubs

Eko o ni baje o!

the road belongs to federal. Ambode has tried to do some federal roads but he was blocked by federal ministry of works....Fashola is d key problem in apapa not ambode!...wen ambode attempted to do airport road with lagos money, minister for works said no, dat d fed govt wud do it, and uptil now d road isnt done