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Apapa gridlock: Residents protest, threaten legal action over trailers

- Residents of Apapa area of Lagos have protested indiscriminate parking of trailers and tankers in the area

- The residents have threatened to take legal action against Nigerian Ports Authority and all shipping companies if the federal government fails to relocate trailers causing gridlock the area

- Protesters were led to the Area B police command, Apapa, by the chairman of the residents association, retired Brigadier General Sola Vaughan

Nigerian Ports Authority and all shipping companies have been threatened with legal action if the federal government fails to relocate trailers causing gridlock in the Apapa area of Lagos state.

The residents of the area, who made the threat said they had decided to issue a 21-day ultimatum to the government on the matter, saying if nothing was done at the expiration of the ultimatum, legal action would be taken, Punch reports.

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Legit.ng gathers that the chairman of the residents association, retired Brigadier General Sola Vaughan, led protesters to the Area B police command, Apapa.

According to a statement on Thursday, January 24, a letter for President Muhammadu Buhari was delivered to the area commander by the protesters.

The statement read: “Vaughan lamented that residents of Apapa and its environs over the years had abandoned their homes and business due to the hardship caused by indiscriminate parking of trailers and tankers in the area.

“Another resident, Mrs Ronke James, said hoodlums had taken advantage of the situation to unleash terror on the residents at will.

“While receiving the protest letter, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Muhammadu Ahmadu of the Area B Command, promised to deliver the letter to the state Commissioner of Police for transfer to President Buhari."

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the presidential task Force on Apapa Gridlock said that it would on Monday, September 24, 2018, start impounding deviant and idle articulated vehicles on Lagos bridges and roads.

The task force chairman, Commodore Okon Eyo, announced this at stakeholders’ meeting on Apapa traffic gridlock in Lagos.

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He said the punitive measures would only apply to non-compliant drivers of articulated vehicles.

Eyo, who is also the commander, NNS Beecroft, explained that the delay in enforcement was due to lack of holding bays to accommodate the trucks and other modalities needed to be put in place.

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