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The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is taking stringent measures to tackle unwholesome tendencies in maritime business to entrench confidence in the system, its Acting Managing Director, Mr Mohammed Bello-Koko, has said.
He stated this on Sunday in Lagos that redoployment of security officials was key and that some had stayed for a long time on their beats.
“What we have discovered is that there are security officials that have been working within the area we call the red zone, which is the Tin Can, Apapa area, for four, five or six years, and they are still there.
At the NPA, we have dealt with security men indicted over unwholesome tendencies. We are doing a lot and shall soon rid the ports of such vices,” he said.
Bello-Koko also spoke on the agonising Apapa gridlock and declared that the
deployment of infrastructure under the Electronic Call-Up system for trucks had eliminated it by more than 80 per cent.
