Views: Visits 5 By Godwin Oritse MAJOR truck owners operating in Lagos ports, yesterday, opened a can of warms, alleging fraud in the electronic Call-Up system introduced by the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, to address the chaotic traffic situation in Apapa and its environs. The truck owners, who spoke as members of Council of Maritime Truck Unions and Associations, COMTUA, and concerned stakeholders, said implementation of the e-Call-Up system is exposed to sabotage. COMTUA is made up of truck owners in the Nigerian maritime sector. The associations include the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN; National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW; Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO; Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, and Corporate Fleet Owners.
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He added that it was caused by speed violation and wrongful overtaking.
The accident involved a commercial vehicle, a Toyota Matrix Wagon with a number plate: BEN256TA, belonging to the National Union of Road Transport Workers, and a Volkswagen Saloon Golf with a number plate: MUB739QW.
He said, “We were called and our men rushed to the scene for the rescue operation.
“They evacuated them to the General Hospital Darazo for medical attention.
“It was at the hospital that a medical doctor certified four of them dead.
“Their corpses have been deposited at the mortuary in the same hospital after which they will be released to their families for burial.”
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Some residents of Badagry in Lagos State on Thursday decried what they called indiscriminate parking of some trucks on Lagos – Badagry Expressway.
They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry that the uncoordinated parking was causing accidents and hardship for other road users.
NAN reports that since the Federal Government reopened land borders, some trucks carrying cement to the neighbouring countries like Republic of Benin, Togo, Ghana and Senegal, had been passing through the expressway.
It reports that most of the trucks used to park along the expressway indiscriminately to take a respite before continuing with their journey outside the country.