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“When I get a man, I will decline the ride. I started last month and my first operation was on July 28, but I did two other operations this month" ....
Hadiza Bala-Usman With the electronic call-up system (ETO) introduced by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to solve the Apapa gridlock, sanity is gradually returning to the road. Before the electronic call-up system’s commencement, the Managing Director of the NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman, spoke with editors of national newspapers on how the process will work. Eromosele Abiodun presents the excerpts. Early last year, a businessman said it cost N60,000 to clear anything out of the port. But within last December and January, that same truck cost him N1,000,000. The reality is that the more you try, the harder it gets to do anything. Security operatives’ deployment to Apapa is like doing business in the Niger Delta. It is the most lucrative posting for security men in Lagos today. ....
Uniformed men, especially those purportedly working for the disbanded task team, have been blamed for this by truck drivers and importers. The escalating incidents of corrupt practices involving uniformed men, particularly the police and those from the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA), have led to various forms of protests by truck drivers, which Daily Trust has captured in a series of reports. Part of the extortion scheme is the aiding and abetting of illegal use of the Apapa outward lane by truck drivers or owners who pay bribes of about N250, 000 to the uniformed agents. Others who officially pay for a tag, which was originally initiated by the truck owners association as a means of controlling traffic at the onset of the gridlock caused by failed portions of the roads, are made to wait on queue for over a week. ....