FG Task Force Blames Truck Drivers, Miscreants For Slow Progress of Lagos’ Apapa Roads Rehabilitation

The Chairman, Presidential Task Force on Apapa Port Access Roads, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, has said that truck drivers and miscreants in the Apapa port area of the state has frustrated efforts to reconstruct the bad roads in the area.
Opeifa said that the contractor has used heaps of sands to block certain portions of the roads to stop the movements of these trucks so that they (contractor) can continue working uninterrupted.
He complained that some unruly truck drivers with some criminal gangs attacked them for trying to restrict their movement.
He also explained that the contractor would have achieved much more if the truckers had not hampered them initially.
He stated: “We had a running battle with these truck drivers because they just refused to leave the port roads for construction to continue. At a point, the contractor became overwhelmed with the attitude of the truckers because they (Truck drivers) were slowing them down. We had to devise a method to put them to check because they were beginning to hinder the construction of the port access roads and the contractor has a deadline to meet.
“At a point we came under serious attack from some criminal gangs who challenged us because we restricted their movement.”
Opeifa said that by December this year, the roads would have been fully reconstructed, a development that will further ease the traffic situation in and around the ports and its environs.