Relieve For Residents, Motorists As E-Call Up Begins In Apapa
source: https://eyesoflagos.com/2021/03/03/relieve-for-residents-motorists-as-e-call-up-begins-in-apapa/

At long last, ease has been reestablished to occupants and drivers utilizing the Apapa hub of Lagos.

The new electronic call-up framework started by the Nigerian Port Authority, NPA, has assumed a critical part in controlling gridlock in Apapa.

“It’s another rent of life for truck tasks around the seaports:”, a transporter Usman Musa said while acclaiming the activity.

He said: “On the off chance that anybody had advised me there would be when traffic at Marine Beach would stream unreservedly as being seen today (Monday), I would challenge it. The most recent four years were anguishing for a large portion of us working here. I used to go through three hours for 15 minutes venture,” Musa said.

Following the dispatch of the e-Call Up stage and traffic requirement in Apapa by joint Taskforce groups raised by the Lagos Government and NPA, bottlenecks created by law authorization organizations and port authorities were destroyed and trucks had cleaned up the courses, bringing about free development of traffic in Apapa.

Praising the advancement recorded, Musa said, “We uphold the activity of the Government in taking care of this issue and we have begun to conform to the request that disallows stopping our trailers on the interstates.”

A carrier, Ismail Olaitan, conceded that the advancement presented had rearranged the disorganized activity of trucks around the seaports, lauding Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Managing Director of NPA, Mrs. Hadiza Bala Usman, for showing solid will in upholding the change.

He said, “We are content with this turn of events. At the point when the electronic call-up framework was dispatched at the end of the week, the greater part of our partners took their trucks off the streets and moved into Lilypond Terminal in consistence. This new framework will achieve positive effects on our business, and this is the reason we are accepting it with happiness. The old framework had just brought us torment and distress.”

Eyes Of Lagos gathered that, The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, destroyed all designated spots mounted by the police along Apapa hallway from Surulere into the seaports.

As indicated by the police chief, the designated spots were essential for the elements making traffic along the Apapa hallway.

Odumosu cautioned that critical result anticipates any official who returns on the Apapa courses to make unapproved beat.

He, notwithstanding, permitted a designated spot before Sifax Depot for authorization reason exclusively by men of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA).