NPA Orders Rehabilitation OfApapa, Tin-Can Ports’ Roads

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), AlhajiSanusiLamido, has ordered the rehabilitation of the road linking Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports.
The directive is contained in a statement issued  by the agency last week and signed by Malam Isa Suwaid, NPA’s Principal Manager, Public Affairs.
It said the managing director gave the directive while receiving members of Shipping Association of Nigeria (SAN), who paid him a courtesy visit in Lagos.
Lamido said the directive should be carried out immediately.

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), AlhajiSanusiLamido, has ordered the rehabilitation of the road linking Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports.
The directive is contained in a statement issued  by the agency last week and signed by Malam Isa Suwaid, NPA’s Principal Manager, Public Affairs.
It said the managing director gave the directive while receiving members of Shipping Association of Nigeria (SAN), who paid him a courtesy visit in Lagos.
Lamido said the directive should be carried out immediately.
“The managing director assured that the authority would mobilise both human and material resources to ensure that palliative maintenance works start without delay.’’
AihajiLamido who was reacting to updates made by the General Manager, Western Port, Chief Michael Ajayi on the adverse effect of the bad road on the economic activities at the Ports in Lagos, directed that the orders should be carried out immediately.
The Managing Director assured that the NPA  willmobilise all her resources, both human and materials, to ensure that palliative maintenance work starts without further delay.
The General Manager, Western Port, chief Michael Ajayi also updated the stakeholders at the meeting that the management of the (NPA) and a construction firm had signed a Memorandum of Understanding( MOU) on the rehabilitation of the Liverpool round-about and the Creek road in Apapa.
Chief Ajayi also called on other federal Government Agencies involved in road maintenance to see it as a common challenge and aligned with the Management of the NPA to make the Apapa wharf road motorable.
Earlier, chairman of Shipping Association of Nigeria (SAN); Mr Val Usifo had assured the managing director of NPA of the association’s corporation.