Maritime Union Gives FG 21 –Day Ultimatum To Repair Roads
Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, (MWUN) yesterday issued a 21-day ultimatum to Federal Government to repair its bad roads, especially the Oshodi-Apapa Dual Carriage Way or face industrial action from its members.
The Maritime union in a statement signed by the President General of the union, Comrade Adeyanju Adewale threatened that at the expiration of the 21 days ultimatum, if the roads remained the same they will have no other choice than to ask their members to stay at home until the federal government and NPA are ready to make the ports function by fixing the access roads.
He said, “We have watched with total disbelief government continuous neglect and abandonment of the access roads to the nation’s seaports, the gateway to the nation’s economy, especially the Oshodi-Apapa Dual Carriage Way that the leads to the nation’s two major ports of Apapa and Tin-Can.
“We have written several letters, made several appeals and even threatened industrial actions all in our efforts to ensure that the Federal Government and Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) live up to their responsibilities and do the needful on the access roads to no avail. As previous governments have abandoned the roads, so also has this current government”, it said.
The union emphasised that they can no longer accept and live with the abandonment of access roads to the ports which have been in the state of disrepair for years despite their efforts at drawing the attention of government to fix the roads.
Adewale explained that for a long time , Oshodi-Apapa Dual Carriage way as well as other port access have become death traps to road users and recording very fatal accidents on daily basis.
“In December last year, the NPA told us that the contract for the rehabilitation of the Apapa-Oshodi Dual Carriage Way had been awarded. We are in May 2017, nothing has been done. The sad thing is that no sign that contract has been awarded.
