something that won't last 7 days

nice

Thank God hopefully going home won't be so stressful from now on

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Who are the sole beneficiaries of the current revenue drive being enforced by the Presidential Task Force on Ports Decongestion and Easing Apapa Gridlock?

The question has become pertinent because whoever is vested with the responsibility of supervising the task force, if he is not the sole beneficiary, ought to know by now that the task force has since outlived its usefulness and it is now operating beyond its brief extorting various sums ranging from N50,000 to N200,000 to grant access to port users. To maximum its profiteering, it has also resorted to illegally mounting all manner of obstacles and roadblocks which constitute the revenue collection points all over Apapa to make life utterly unbearable for port users and residents of Apapa.

Across all the security agencies, posting to the task force is a goldmine, place to be and there is a scramble for postings with people bribing those in charge of postings with as much as N150,000. A story is being told of how a police officer with the rank of sergeant serving in Kano suddenly made it big in Lagos.

Sergeant Aliyu Bala (not real name) has been in the force for over 20 years. With his nine children and two wives, life was treacherous. He could hardly feed his family and was perpetually borrowing before month ended to make ends meet. But then, he saw a junior colleague of his who was recently posted to Lagos and just within three months, he came back to Kano with a car and the family was doing well.

Determined to get to the root of this sudden opulence, Bala pressed his colleague for information but his junior colleague only told him Lagos was a jungle and survival was a way of life. Bala got his break when his sister, who resided in Lagos invited him to come and spend some few weeks of his leave with them in Lagos. It was an eye opener for him.

Once he returned to Kano, with the help of his sister, the money was raised, paid and he was transferred to Lagos and to the task force. Today, Bala’s story has changed completely for good. In just about six months since he arrived here, regardless of the initial obstacles of accomodation and resettlement, he has not only rented and furnished his house in Lagos, he has also bought two cars, one for himself and another for his wife. He is also planning to build a befitting house too.

This is just an aspect of the corruption and racketeering going on at the task force. The main revenue drive which is the real reason Apapa gridlock would never ease and rather than finding a solution, the situation is deteriorating, worsening the traffic snarls, making nonsense of the much vaunted ease-to-doing business and holding port users in a vice grip.

Firstly, all available spaces from the National Stadium all through to the ports including areas like Orile Iganmu, Bode Thomas, and Ijora Olopa axis all through to the ports are taken over by vehicles and each vehicle pays N5000 per night for the parking space. For vehicles going to drop off empty containers, the payments range from N50,000 to N100,000 depending on whether it 40 feet or more. Then it costs N200,000 for a transporter to access the port for his cargoes.

“From First Gate to Second Gate, we have about four roadblocks mounted by the security agents and the trucks must part with money before they can move. As we speak, we pay between N1.1 million and N1.2 million per truck as against N100,000 to move our containers out of the port. The cheapest truck you can get to hire is N1 million. We have never experienced it this way before.
Victory at last!
Hallelujah

Before and After below....


Thanks for the updates Chief Naptu.

since I have being following you, this is the best I have ever seen from you

BKayy:
Na the aerial view of Apapa be this?
Never knew it was this local, maybe because you won't have time to really see the place as she is (local) because of the stupid traffic, hawkers and stupid people around.

Lagos is the most overrated place in the world.
Just look at Apapa
The only cities we have in Nigeria is Uyo, Calabar, PH Owerri, Enugu, Onitsha, Awka, Kano, Kaduna and Abuja. As for Lagos, it is an overhyped mega slum

You need deliverance cuz your brain is leaking

This is a welcome development.

thank God oo..this is a living witness of Lagos state government in action....my parent stays in Coconut bus top, along the oshodi-Apapa- wharf road..its usually hell returning each day we go out do to tankers and trucks blocking the routes.....
hope the task force will sustain this.
God bless Lagos state!

This is a bloody lie.

I was in Apapa last week Friday and the traffic was as terrible as ever!

At last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BKayy:
Na the aerial view of Apapa be this?
Never knew it was this local, maybe because you won't have time to really see the place as she is (local) because of the stupid traffic, hawkers and stupid people around.

Lagos is the most overrated place in the world.
Just look at Apapa
The only cities we have in Nigeria is Uyo, Calabar, PH Owerri, Enugu, Onitsha, Awka, Kano, Kaduna and Abuja. As for Lagos, it is an overhyped mega slum

Bro, do you just love making all this ignorant comments? How can you be comparing the whole of Lagos state to cities, bro you're daft.

Hope they will not join politics in the bid yo please their masters soon

Kobicove:
This is a bloody lie.

I was in Apapa last week Friday and the traffic was Stoll as terrible as ever!

You were in Apapa last week Friday, but the Eto and enforcement began on Saturday, so how would you have been able to see the effects of something that started on Saturday if you went there on Friday?

That's good,at least I have not experienced traffic yesterday and today I hope it will last..

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Why are you guyz saying in few weeks time they will be back. The question is, if they ever come back, whose fault is it Is it the government's?? A law has been passed, then you break it, then blame the government, is it not the the citizens who are responsible??

Government has done its job, a citizen collects bribe and allows trucks to park there again, then you blame the government.

The real lasting solution to the gridlock is to Decongest the Port by energizing other moribund Ports iñ the country. The economic effects on road safety is enourmous..

BKayy:
Na the aerial view of Apapa be this?
Never knew it was this local, maybe because you won't have time to really see the place as she is (local) because of the stupid traffic, hawkers and stupid people around.

Lagos is the most overrated place in the world.
Just look at Apapa
The only cities we have in Nigeria is Uyo, Calabar, PH Owerri, Enugu, Onitsha, Awka, Kano, Kaduna and Abuja. As for Lagos, it is an overhyped mega slum

Mega slum indeed

BKayy:
Na the aerial view of Apapa be this?
Never knew it was this local, maybe because you won't have time to really see the place as she is (local) because of the stupid traffic, hawkers and stupid people around.

Lagos is the most overrated place in the world.
Just look at Apapa
The only cities we have in Nigeria is Uyo, Calabar, PH Owerri, Enugu, Onitsha, Awka, Kano, Kaduna and Abuja. As for Lagos, it is an overhyped mega slum

Lagos is not a city, but Enugu, onitsha and oweri is?
You need brain transplant urgently