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Business activities are currently at a lock down in Apapa. Movement in and out of the port city has virtually stopped as all the access roads have eventually collapsed. This is worsened by the ubiquitous tankers and trailers which have converted the entire stretch of the Apapa/Oshodi express way and the Marine bridge from the Western Avenue axis to a vast parking lot, cutting off all access to the city.
#X 8:58AM Don’t come to Apapa unless you’re coming by boat pic.twitter.com/B9QdRtqIiR VIA @Bisolaaa
— Trafficbutter.com.ng (@trafficbutter) June 8, 2017
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On the Tin Can Port/Coconut axis, containers that fell off the trucks litter the crater-filled and flooded road.
@Gidi_Traffic tell Lagosians not to come to apapa. They can’t get here, @tundefashola has slept, the ministry of works is snoring #apapa
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— Mr Incredible (@Dr__Bones) June 8, 2017
Only companies that have access to the sea and have boats could be seen open. Evacuation of containers and other imported goods from the ports has almost stopped.
A staff of the National Maritime and Administration Agency (NIMASA), who asked to speak anonymously, told TheNewsGuru.com that the much dreaded evil day for Apapa is finally here. All business activities have been paralyzed as people can no longer access Apapa.
“There is no word to describe the current situation. Apapa can now be rightly described as felled port town. It is now cut off from the rest of Lagos. All movement has come to an end while the government continues to watch and making promises.”
He lamented that the city that harbours the nation’s major ports through which billions of Naira revenue are raked into the federal government coffers could be so neglected and made a subject of unnecessary power play.
TheNewsGuru.com recalls that more than a month ago, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Raji Babatunde Fashola, said work would commence on the embattled road in a matter of weeks.
He said private organisations have come together to provide the funds for the total reconstruction of the road. He said the companies provided about N700billion for the project but that the government was engaging them in discussions to know the terms under which the offer was being made.
But to the long suffering and badly battered inhabitants and workers of Apapa, this negotiation is taking too long while social and economic activities continue to suffer.