The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has donated a pick-up van to the Federal Roads Committee on Surveillance Action Against Road Abuse (FERCSARA) to aid the body’s operations aimed at decongesting Lagos ports’ access roads.
The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has donated a pick-up van to the Federal Roads Committee on Surveillance Action Against Road Abuse (FERCSARA) to aid the body’s operations aimed at decongesting Lagos ports’ access roads.
Speaking on behalf of the Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Council, Hassan Bello, the Deputy Director, Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement, Cajetah.C. Agu, while handing over relevant documents, said that the vehicle was donated to FERCSARA as part of its agency’s corporate social responsibility (CSR).
The deputy director stated that the Shippers Council’s gesture was in response was to the request from the group for an operational vehicle to facilitate their activities.
He enjoined the inter-agency body to make judicious use of the vehicle to justify the continued collaborative efforts of the Council with stakeholders in order to restore sanity in all the port access roads.
Responding, the Chairman, Western Zone of Federal Roads Committee on Surveillance and Action Against Road Abuse; Chief Austine Kelly expressed the appreciation of his group to the management and staff of the Council for the donation.
According to him, Nigerian Shippers’ Council as the Economic Regulator is father to different players in the maritime sector, adding that the FERCSARA will always support the Council’s aspiration of tackling Apapa gridlock.
He affirmed that the vehicle will aid FERCSARA in its task of ridding the ports access routes of all impediments to free entrance and exit.
He also expressed appreciation to the Shippers Council’s Executive Secretary; Mr Hassan Bello for the gesture.
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