…Says order achievable
The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) has expressed happiness over efforts by the federal government to end gridlock in Apapa and its environs.
This is even as it believed that the order to rid the port access roads of all trucks and tankers parking on the bridges and roads is achievable.
The Vice Chairman of the Council, Chief Henry Njoku who stated this in an interview with newsmen in Lagos said that they were happy that President Muhammadu Buhari had taken time to give that directive adding that for so many years, people were suffering to pass through the roads.
“So, what he has done, we are very much happy with the President. I am very sure that they are addressing it, the President just issued the order yesterday (Wednesday) and I am sure they are going to adhere with it”, he said.
On whether the move was achievable, Njoku who is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) said, “It is achievable. What happens in Nigeria is that we have law and people do not obey it but I believe that with this present order given now, if really implemented, it will work.
“There must be solution. You can’t go continue, people are suffering going there and there are people, every day you see them. Those trucks, they must find a place to keep them so that these things will work but if there is no order at all, it will remain that way. I am sure you are not happy about the situation of that place, so, nobody is happy.
“For you to get a truck to come out from there, you are paying between N300,000 and N400,000 to come out locally here when you used to pay N50, 000 to N60, 000. It doesn’t work well. Those importers will transfer the cost of those things to individuals who are buying them. So, it is important we know that whatever we do, comes back to us and that is why I say, let them find a way.
“I come from the east, from Port-Harcourt. We have challenges but every challenge we have, we sit down together and go and resolve it. We never bring it to the national; it takes us time to bring it to the national because that is how we work in the east. The federal government, if it had acted long time ago, they would have gotten solution to it. So, it is better to take action than not to take at all”.
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