Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday met with tank farm owners in Apapa on how to resolve the perennial traffic jam in the area, vowing that the state has the capacity to make parties involved play by the rule.
He said the State Government will take a second look at the truck park at Orile with a view to expanding it to have the capacity to accommodate 1000 trucks.
The governor who spoke at an interactive session held at Lagos House, Ikeja, which also had other stakeholders in the petroleum storage industry in attendance, said the State Government is ready to embark on the project with inputs from the tank owners.
“If the tankers must come in every day into Lagos, we must have a location for them but not on the bridge. As immediate solution, I will continue to use my task force to clean up the bridge. And I will also immediately look at the truck park at Orile and expand its capacity from 350 to 1000 trucks.
“So for us to be able to accommodate you, you must come to the round table. You cannot fold your arms and say that it does not concern you. I am giving up the security and safety of Lagosians by accommodating 57 tank farms and giving up the safety and peace of Lagosians by allowing over 1000 trucks to enter Lagos every day.
“It is very clear that tank farm owners do not want to take responsibility for what is happening on the Apapa gridlock. It is very clear also that if we are to start to think in the manner in which these presentations have been made we would have to get everybody off the bridge. There should be no tanker driver that should enter Lagos except he …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
