72hr ultimatum on trucks should be legally sustained — Customs

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By Oko Ebuka

In the effort to carry out the presidential directives on evacuation of trucks on all the roads leading to Apapa port within a period of three days, the officer in charge of enforcement at Tin-Can Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Deputy Controller Dera Nnadi, has said that the exercise should be sustained legally so that the situation will no longer be experienced in the future.

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A choked-up section of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, taken over by trucks. More photos on Page 37. Photos by Joe Akintola, Photo Editor, Kehinde Gbadamosi, Bunmi Azeez, and Akeem Salau.

In an exclusive chat with  Vanguard Maritime Report during the stakeholders meeting held in Apapa recently to address the issue, Nnadi said that the legal backing will go a long way in solving the traffic problems and ease Nigerians and international community of the burden of doing business in and around Apapa.

According to him, “What I understand here is that it is an ad-hoc arrangement that…



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