Stakeholders on Thursday reached an agreement to take
necessary measures in Apapa to ensure commencement of reconstruction of Wharf
Road leading to the nation’s major port on July 7.
The stakeholders agreed on several issues at a meeting held
at the office complex of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing
headquarters in Lagos.
Those in attendance include representatives of traffic
regulatory and traffic management agencies, law enforcement agencies, transport
unions, petroleum products unions, port terminal operators and the Nigerian
Port Authority (NPA).
Others are telecommunication service providers, the Apapa
Local Government, representatives of Federal Ministry of Power, Works and
Housing, AG Dangote Construction Company Ltd, contractors on the project, among
others.
The stakeholders, rising from the meeting, presented a communiqué
read by Mr. Godwin Eke, Federal Controller, Works, Lagos and a consultant of AG
Dangote Construction Company Ltd, Mr. Kayode Opeifa.
They agreed that the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and
Housing and NPA should collaborate to repair all bad roads and diversion
routes, including Tin Can Island Road, Creek Road and Oshodi-Apapa Expressway,
which will receive heavy traffic.
The stakeholders resolved that a meeting be held between
traffic regulatory agencies, law enforcement agencies and the Lagos State
Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) on July 3 to fashion out a traffic
management plan.
“After the meeting and the discussions and approval, it will
be communicated to all stakeholders. Then, we can ask the contractors to
mobilise and begin the reconstruction of Apapa Wharf Road.
“We all resolved to ensure that parked trucks be removed
from Apapa Wharf Road for construction works to commence in phases on 7th July;
it will never be a total closure of all the roads, but only on sections of the
road where work will be done,” the communiqué stated.
They agreed that stakeholders will corporate with any
changes in time line of traffic management, which will be communicated to all
parties by both the NPA and the contractor through LASTMA, for effective
traffic diversions during the period.
The stakeholders also resolved that traffic management
agencies would come up with a periodic traffic management plan backed by
security provided by the security agencies.
They agreed that the Sole Administrator of Apapa Local
Government, Mr. Luqman Alao, would work with all traffic management agencies,
security agencies and the NPA, and coordinate activities between them and the
military.
The stakeholders commended the NPA, AG Dangote, Flour Mills
of Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Power, Work and Housing for coming
together to execute the project.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Minister
of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on June 17, handed over the
Apapa Wharf Road to AG Dangote Construction Company Ltd. for reconstruction.
The site was handed over after the minister signed a N4.34
billion Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with stakeholders who were to fund
the project.
The project is to be funded by AG Dangote Construction
Company Ltd, an arm of the Dangote Group, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA)
and Flour Mills of Nigeria.
The Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, on July 22, held
the first stakeholders meeting with some concerned parties on how to achieve
success and speed on the project.
NAN reports that the ministry held another meeting with
telecommunication service providers and others on Wednesday on how to relocate
service cables and pipes in the Right of Way of the project.
The two kilometre road has a completion period
of one year.
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