By Roland Ekama, Lagos
The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Employers (NARTO) has debunked allegations leveled against it’s trailer park at Tin Can Island Port Lagos over filths and poor sanitary conditions .
The Vice Chairman, Dry Cargo, Lagos state, Mohammed Inuwa expressed displeasure over reports that the association runs a dirty garage in port environment.
He said that apart from the daily cleaning by individual owners of the shop operators in the port, there is always a General cleaning every Thursday that involves all users of the park.
Speaking on behalf of Tin Can island Port chapter ,the NARTO Chieftain also said that he could not debunk the existence of sex workers but maintained that such does not happen within the association’s park.
“NARTO is a reputable organisation, we cannot allow such where we have our investment, we have protocols guiding us here, even the people selling food here, we do call for hygiene
“In fact, there was a time health officers in Apapa Local Government sent some of them for orientation on how to maintains good hygiene.
“Despiye the fact that we are in open place, we have toilets for drivers and we have where the drivers can take their bath.
“Within our park we don’t have such although we know some drivers anywhere you see them, you see women around them but we don’t have such here.
“There is a sanction for anyone who defaults in taking good care of the business environment because we have heads of the business people who monitor the development.
