NPA MD, Bello Koko pays unscheduled visit to Tin Can Island Port Access Road

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko paid an unscheduled visit to Tin Can Island Port access road on Monday to assess the gains recorded in the clearance of illegal check/extortion points and shanties that had been resulting in traffic gridlock.

Bello Koko said during the unscheduled visit, “We have zero tolerance for all forms of impediments to free flow of traffic; it is no fluke, and we are poised to consolidate the gains we have recorded first in Apapa and now Tincan. We are grateful to the Honourable Minister of Marine & Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, and the Lagos State Governor for the tremendous support we have received in this regard.”

He hinted that ports access roads are international corridors and traffic gridlock along such sensitive road networks negates port productivity and is an international embarrassment that requires the synergy of all stakeholders to tackle sustainability.

He explained that although the causes of the gridlock are rooted in factors external to NPA, the agency have a duty as the gateway to the national economy to take the frontline role in tackling this menace.

Speaking on the menace of refuse debris blocking the drainages, Bello Koko said, “Although I have directed our relevant in-house department to commence desilting of the drainages and clearance of the refuse, we will enlist the cooperation and intensify synergy with Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and the Federal Ministry of Works under whose purview waste and road management resides to arrest the ugly trend.”