Transporters protest illegal checkpoints along Lagos ports corridor

The National Executive Council of the Council of Maritime Transport Unions and Associations, COMTUA, has accused the Lagos State Trucks and Cargo Operations Committee, LASTCOC, of disregarding a solution reached astatine a bid gathering convened by the Commissioner of Police, Western Ports Command.

COMTUA alleged that LASTCOC had continued to equine amerciable checkpoints, cod levies and allegedly extort truckers on the Lagos larboard entree corridor contempt the statement reached astatine the meeting.

The union’s National President, Prince Adeyinka Aroyewun, disclosed this successful a statement, saying the gathering was held successful accordance with the directive of the Inspector General of Police connected eliminating extortion and amerciable roadblocks on larboard transit routes.

According to Aroyewun, representatives of COMTUA and LASTCOC, alongside different stakeholders, attended the gathering astatine the office of the Western Ports Command to code operational challenges affecting question and logistics astir the ports.

He said the stakeholders agreed that nary union, relation oregon committee should behaviour its activities, found checkpoints oregon cod levies, tolls oregon tickets on the larboard corridor covering Coconut, Tin Can, Apapa and Mile 2, arsenic good arsenic the Ijora-Apapa route.

“At that meeting, it was intelligibly and unequivocally agreed and directed that nary union, relation oregon committe...