The Management of APM Terminal Apapa has promised to collaborate with the Commissioner of Police in charge of Western Ports, Kayode Aderanti to make the ports secured from miscreant.
Andrew Dawes, the Managing Director of APMT stated this during the Courtesy visit on the facility by the Commissioner of Police Tuesday.
The Managing Director stressed that the terminal had no reason being in business if the port where they carry out their business is not secured.
“We are ready to collaborate with you, work with you to secure our operational base, our facility is opened to you at anytime.
“We welcome you, we are ready to share information with you and to create mutual understanding between our terminal and your men.”
Dawes praised the track record of the Police Commissioner saying his records in the Police had shown that he is someone with impressive history in the force.
Speaking earlier at the Terminal Operator’s office, Commissioner of Police Aderanti called for collaboration between the police and APMT in order to be preventive about nipping threats in the bud and not reactive after things might have happened”.
“We can only achieve the goal of being proactive only when we have good relationship with the stakeholders in the Ports environment,” Aderanti said.
The CP who was on a familiarization tour around the Lagos Ports Complex also visited Greenview Development Terminal, (GDNL) where he met with the Director, Finance who stood in for the Managing Director and the Managing Director Ports Operation, Capt. Joshua Oyewumi.
Oyewunmi applauded the efforts of the Police in securing the Ports and promised to support the command to be able to carry out its duty.
Oyewumi said, “we have always been working with the police and we will always work with them because they are important to our operations.Without the police, there will be lawlessness and that is not good for our Operation”.
Oyewumi also praised the professionalism of the Area Commander in-charge of Apapa saying he had been supportive to the terminal.
“On behalf of the MD of this terminal, members of staff, we want you to count on us for support, we will give you the needed cooperation and support,” he said.
Speaking to his host, Aderanti thanked them for their support for the police and also asked for their continued support while the police continue to make the ports safe.
“Our mandate is to Provide security, we are to give our best to ensure that everything in this sector is secured and that can only be achieved through partnership with the stakeholders.”
He however warned the terminal operators not to allow their terminals be used as a conduit point for the moving illegal arms and explosives into the country.
“What the IG (Inspector General Of Police) would not allow is for you to allow your terminals to be used to bring things that would unleash terror on the life of innocent Nigerians, everybody should work in the purview of the law and not against the law.”
