NPA Management confident of ETO success as stakeholders meet
The Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority(NPA) has expressed confidence that the electronic call-up system ETO would achieve its goal of sanitising the truck entry chaos being experienced in the Lagos ports.
The Ag. Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko, expressed the confidence at a meeting held with stakeholders to discuss the issue of the perennial gridlock and challenges facing the entry system of trucks into the ports.
Speaking during the interactive session with stakeholders, which held at the NPA Headquarters on Marina, Lagos, the Ag. MD disclosed that security agencies, stakeholders and the Lagos State Government agreed on streamlining operational procedures to curtail extortion and sharp practices that hamper the enforcement of the truck traffic management at Apapa and the entire Maritime logistic Ring (MLR).
He said: “The management of the NPA is seeking more partnership from the authority’s vast stakeholders towards stimulating the ETO, the electronic call up system to considerable success.
“There is therefore the need for all security agencies as well as operators to rub minds, share information on the subject of ETO and the truck traffic management in Apapa in relation to proffering solutions to the gridlock in the Port environment.
“Let us jointly work in greater unison to resolve this issue that has become worrisome”
The NPA chief security officer also appreciated Lagos State Government, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Port Authority Police, for their unflinching support on the subject of ETO enforcement.
Bello Koko said the NPA would always keep up to its responsibilities; therefore it would not relent especially with synergies in sailing the authority to an expected height.
Assistant Inspector General of Police, Amadi John Ogbonnaya, and the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Transportation, Hon. Toyin Fayinka (left), were among the stakeholders present at the meeting.
