Police ban revenue collection, ticket sales on Apapa port roads

The Western Ports Police Command has declared gross postulation and summons income on the Apapa and Tin Can Island larboard entree corridors illegal.

The declaration followed a brewing disagreement betwixt the Committee of Maritime Transport Unions and Associations, COMTUA, and the Lagos State Trucks and Cargo Operators Committee, LASTCOC, implicit the projected postulation of Lagos State gross tickets on the larboard routes.

The Police Command intervened aft COMTUA petitioned against what it described arsenic plans to illegally cod gross tickets connected the entree roads starring to the ports.

Following the petition, the Commissioner of Police, Western Ports Command, summoned some groups to a bid gathering astatine the Command Headquarters to resoluteness the quality and avert a imaginable breakdown of instrumentality and bid on the engaged maritime corridors.

The gathering was attended by the Deputy Commissioners of Police successful complaint of Operations and Administration, the Area Commander, Tin Can Island, Divisional Police Officers from Apapa, RORO and Tin Can Island, alongside different elder officers of the Ports Authority Police Command.

The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, was besides represented by its Principal Security Officers, PSOs, from the Apapa and Tin Can Island ports.

In a connection issued by its National President, Yinka Aroyewun, COMTU...