Downpour Frustrates Presidential Task Team Mandates To Ease Gridlock

The Presidential Task Team on restoration of sanity   at Apapa has expressed disappointment over downpour that has remained inebriated since Monday ,saying the rainfall has  messed up its working plans and projections.

Vice Chairman of the team Comrade Kayode Opeifa disclosed that the weather had prevented the team from proceeding as schedule with their work to clear the road leading to Apapa and the two seaports.

Opeifa said the week-long rain had compounded the work of the team, because much of what they were doing on Thursday when the rain subsided was recovery of trucks which had felled into potholes as a result of the washout of the roads.

The former commissioner of transportation Lagos state ,noted that  the worse hit had been the Mile 2 to Apapa axis, which was as a result of the collapse of the road especially from mile 2 into Apapa.

“Rain or no rain, we will continue until we clear the road from the Port to Mile 2. I do not need to assure anybody.

“Our job is to clean up. We don’t have a deadline, we have a timeline. That is short, long and medium term,” Opeifa said.

“The rain must have put paid to the team rounding off its assignment on Wednesday.

“But for the rain, the team had planned to achieve a clean road from Mile 2 to Apapa by Wednesday,” he said.

Opeifa said when the team’s chairman and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had visited the site last Friday, the team had about 500 metres of palliative work to get to Mile 2 and complete its work.

He disclosed that the team will continue to do its work until it accomplished its mandate.

He called on the Lagos State Emergency Response Unit (LRU), the Lagos State traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) to support the team to succeed in ensuring free flowing traffic in Apapa and all access roads.