The Lagos State Government and the promoters of Call Up Technology (Traffic Management system) have concluded plans to deploy the truck ‘Call Up System’ to the Lekki – Epe axis with a view to manage the traffic that is already building up in the port corridor.
Speaking at a stakeholders meeting held at the office of the Lekki Free Zone Development Company, Lagos State Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Seun Osiyemi said the government cannot wait to start the management of the traffic situation along that axis following the indiscriminate parking by both container trucks and tankers on both sides of the road.
Osiyemi who went on a tour of the Free Zone, also said the state government is considering use of the waterways to evacuate bulk, dry and liquid from the port.
Osiyemi said companies operating within the Zone must to join hands with the government to open this axis as soon as possible.
Speaking, the Deputy Managing Director of the Lekki Free Zone Development Company, Mrs Bolatito Ajibode said that the Zone was the only place left in that axis for investors to acquire land as over 3,000 hectares of land are available for use in the zone.
Also speaking during the tour, the Managing Director of the Call Up Technology, Mr. Tim Koleolu said operators of terminals with truck parks within the red zone- from Eleko Junction inwards- will be unbundled on the Callup system for ease of administration and proper traffic management.
Koleolu also said that their hardwares have been deployed at the Lekki Deep Seaport, Lekki Free Trade Zone and all the approved parks that are ready for operations.
