The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has appealed to the Lagos State Government to help in rehabilitation of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Truck Park at Orile.
Mr. Tayo Aboyeji, Chairman, NUPENG Lagos, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Lagos on Saturday.
Aboyeji said that the development of the Orile Truck Park would bring permanent solution to all traffic problems being experienced in the Apapa Port area and decongest the Apapa Wharf area.
NAN reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had issued a 72-hour ultimatum to truck drivers parked along Apapa, Lagos road to vacate.
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President Buhari noted that the directive would help in clearing the Apapa gridlock and in restoring law and order to Apapa and its environs.
“NUPENG is absolutely in support of clean-up of Apapa gridlock. We equally support all the measures put in place by Presidential Taskforce to free Apapa gridlock.
“The park will contain about 6,000 trucks when completed in the ongoing rehabilitation by Lagos State Government.
“We (tanker drivers) have not been part of the problem but we shall cooperate with whatever measures are put in place by government,’’ Aboyeji said.
Aboyeji urged the Presidential Taskforce to disband all check points initiated by security agents to allow free flow of traffic.
He said that NUPENG would not condone any act of extortion from all illegal check points on Apapa routes.
NAN
