Vincent Toritseju
Lagos — There are indications that only one of the thirteen truck parks approved by both the Lagos State and the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, is currently functioning due to non-availability of lands for the parks to be constructed.
Disclosing this at meeting with some stakeholders of the Lekki Port, Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Hon. Seun Osiyemi said the government is looking into the approval granted these truck parks and why they were not yet operational.
Recall that the government granted Call Up Technology a ten-year concession agreement to provide efficient trucks management service to free the Lekki port axis of its current gridlock.
Osiyemi also said that the government will want to know why these approvals have not been translated into action and see how it can come in to assist in anyway.
Osiyemi said: “You see when you create value, you can put a price to it, if people cannot see what you want to sell, they will contest the price.
“If companies that have a need for it can subsidize it. I focus more on solutions than problems. From what my man is telling me is that they were given provisional approval to go and clear and set up the place. So we need to go back and find out what the problem is.
“You see, it’s nice we had this meeting to know where the challenges are and start to tackle them.”
The commissioner also disclosed Committee made up of every stakeholder with businesses in the Lekki Port with a view to tacking issues as they arise.
