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Lagos set to deploy truck call-up system at Lekki port

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THE Lagos State Government and its partners have concluded plans to deploy the truck call-up system along the Lekki-Epe axis with a view to managing the traffic building up in Lekki port corridor.

Speaking at a stakeholders meeting held at Lekki Free Zone Development, Lagos State Commissioner for Transport, Seun Osiyemi said that the government cannot wait to start the management of the traffic situation along that axis following the indiscriminate parking by both container trucks and tankers on both sides of the road.

Osiyemi said the state government is considering use of the waterways to evacuate bulk, dry and liquid cargo from the port.

“That is the only way we can get to the promise land, if we wait for government, what happens is that the longer we wait the more moribund this place becomes and then the revenue you are trying to get at will not come.

“You see, sometimes you throw out money to make money. What are the prognosis there, the prognosis is that this place will expand and blow out,” Osiyemi said.

Also speaking, the Deputy Managing Director of Lekki Free Zone Development Company, Bolatito Ajibode said the zone was the only place left in that axis for investors to acquire land as over 3,000 hectares of land are available for use.

The Managing Director of Call Up Technology, Tim Koleolu, said operators of terminals with truck parks within the red zone from Eleko junction will be unbundled on the call-up system for ease of administration and proper traffic management.

He said necessary hardwares have been deployed at the Lekki Deep Seaport, Lekki Free Trade Zone and all the approved parks that are ready for operations.

The meeting was attended by the representatives of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Lagos State Government, Lekki Free Zone Development Company, Lekki Deep Seaport, Pinnacle Oil and Gas and Dangote Refinery, among others.

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