Trailers return to Apapa port access roads, overwhelm security operatives

ARTICULATED vehicles have started pulling up again along the Apapa-Oshodi highway despite efforts by the Presidential Task Force on Apapa gridlock to remove them from the ports access roads.

It would be recalled that the dilapidated state of the Coconut and Tin-Can axis of the Apapa-Oshodi highway prevented the task force from clearing that stretch off articulated vehicles on Sunday, thereby leaving pockets of articulated vehicles on the Mile 2 axis.

The task force was only able to clear from Sanya bus-stop to Cele bus-stop on Sunday.

However, when Tribune Online passed through the area on Monday, it was observed that the long queue of the articulated vehicles have again stretched down to Cele, with all of them maintaining one lane, and leaving the other two lanes for motorists to ply.

When contacted, a member of the Task Force who begged not to be quoted admitted that the difficult terrain of Coconut and Tin-Can axis of the Apapa-Oshodi highway is telling on the evacuation exercise.

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In his words, “We were able to remove a couple of trucks from the Coconut and Tin-Can axis today. We have given others still parked at Mile 2 an ultimatum of today to vacate or else we will arrest their trucks. Most of them are parked at Mile 2 under the pretext that the backlog at Coconut and Tin-Can is still there. They have till tomorrow to vacate that area.”

It would be recalled that the Task Force on Sunday cleared Eko bridge and Funsho Williams Avenue off trucks following their refusal to comply with a 72hours Presidential directive to vacate the Lagos ports access roads.