It is four years and five months that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu got sworn in as the governor of Lagos State. But a day after he was sworn-in, May 30, 2019 precisely, he promised to end the menace of articulated vehicles parking on Lagos roads, especially port access roads. He pledged this while on a field tour to Apapa and its access roads.
Sanwo-Olu, while speaking with journalists during the tour, said: “We have discovered that the problem of Apapa is multi-faceted; one agency cannot resolve the issue. We have met with security officers and operators on ground. We have seen that the problem is more than what one company can solve.”
Sometimes from Fagbems to Second Rainbow, the entire fast lane of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway is locked down by articulated vehicles with just a column on the service lane available to other road users including articulated vehicles not heading to the ports. A motorist, Dupe Adebiyi, said that many who need to make use of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, especially the Mile 2 corridor always have negative experience of wasting long hours in traffic.
Although before now, Sanwo-Olu and his team had made some efforts to end the era of articulated vehicles parking on the road, desired result has remained elusive. But Ambode did not succeed in putting a lasting solution to the Apapa access roads gridlock, despite the Federal Government also having in place, a special task force to tackle the menace headed by the immediate past Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.Evidence that all the efforts made had no impact explained why Sanwo-Olu, on the second day of his resumption of office , May 30, 2019, toured the ports’ complex access roads to assess the lingering traffic gridlock in the area.
But after Fayinka left office to contest in the ruling party’s primaries, things degenerated, and articulated vehicles, especially tankers returned to the roads, and accessing the ports once again became a Herculean task, especially the Mile 2 area. “There is a need for us to self-regulate ourselves by ensuring self-compliance by our drivers and not wait for government to come do enforcement exercise. It is a fact that parking of articulated vehicles on the roads is not appropriate.
Attempts to get the Acting Chairman of Petroleum Tanker Drivers, Mr. Olujide Kilanko, to speak on why his members have continually turned the highway into parking lot did not yield result. He did not pick his calls neither did he respond to the text message sent to his phone. Israeli strikes on Sunday put out of service war-torn Syria's two main airports, state media reported citing a military source, with the transport ministry saying flights were re-routed to Latakia.
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