Tankers on Lagos roads: NUPENG wants completion of park in three months

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG)  has  urged the Lagos State government to complete the Orile petroleum tanker parking bay within three months to ameliorate the suffering of the masses on the Ikorodu-Apapa road. The union stated this in a statement yesterday, signed by its General Secretary, Adamu Song. It also called […]

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG)  has  urged the Lagos State government to complete the Orile petroleum tanker parking bay within three months to ameliorate the suffering of the masses on the Ikorodu-Apapa road.

The union stated this in a statement yesterday, signed by its General Secretary, Adamu Song.

It also called for the repair of petroleum products pipelines and petroleum products strategic depots across the country and that they be adequately secured from vandals to reduce the concentration of loading petroleum products from Apapa area. 

The union, said it has  for years expressed concern  on the seeming intractable traffic gridlock at Apapa Port and severally offered options for solutions.

“Since Apapa Port for now, serves as receiving port for more than 75 per cent of goods imports and road transportation is majorly the means of taking these goods into the hinter land, petroleum tankers and other articulated vehicles must necessarily come to Lagos. And in same manner, the vehicles must have a place to park. 

“We propose that the designated Orile petroleum tanker parking space should be urgently given to a very competent and reputable construction company to build within a timeline of 3 months. The access roads in and out of Apapa are long overdue for expansion and reconstruction, yet successive governments have been avoiding making the infrastructural investment that holds the key to the door of the nation’s wealth and prosperity,” said the union.