COMTUA Laments Over Lack Of Enforcement Under NPA’s E-Call Up System

The Council for Maritime Truck Union’s and Association (COMTUA) has lamented that lack of enforcement on the call up system platform will further compound issues of gridlock along the port corridors.

 

 

COMTUA called on management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to introduce enforcement methodology and mechanism , as  measures to tackle the perennial traffic along the port corridors .

 

President of COMTUA, Mr. Olaleye Thompson in a chat with newsmen on Tuesday, in Lagos faulted the immediate disbandment of the Kayode Opeifa led Presidential Taskforce Team (PTT) on Apapa Traffic for the E-Call up system by NPA .

 

He stated that, PTT would have synergize with the operators of Transit Truck Park (TTP) as the enforcement arm in traffic management along the port corridors saying that the missing link and lack of collaboration between both groups snowballed to the bottleneck encountered by operators in the industry.

 

Thompson  maintained that lack of proper coordination, control and enforcement of truckers by relevant agencies of the government, especially as it concerns  the absence of Nigerian Police Force,has  worsen the traffic situation in Apapa and its environs.

 

He added that the failure and lack of solution in sight has led the group to issue a 21- day ultimatum to the government to either fix the problems or the members embark on industrial action.

 

 

According to him, the team was already getting it right before it was asked to quit even as he accused the government of not allowing the operators of ETO to learn from the team before it was made to relinquish power.

 

“Opeifa had passion for this job and I can say it anywhere. The man was not collecting money from anybody that is why anytime I read it in the papers where people are alleging him, people can use your name to do anything but not Opeifa, not Odumosu,not even Suleiman

 

“That is why most of the union members come to me and start agitating that they we should tell the presidency to bring the enforcement team, that they support it.

 

“If Governmemt wanted to succeed abinitio, they should have arranged a merger between TTP and outgoing presidential team and allow the presidential team to midwife them for like six months,stabilise the system and then withdraw them but there was no link between them

 

“There was no synergy between them meanwhile Presidential Task Team had already understood the system, they should have allowed them to show them the way, nurture them and show them the way and all these things we are experiencing would have been a thing of the past because it was Opeifa that suggested that there should be TTP.”

 

He also disclosed that the council of truckers would issue a seven day ultimatum to management of NPA in furtherance to resolve the menacing gridlock along the port corridors.