By Jude Njoku, Bose Adelaja & Kingsley Adegboye
THE Lagos State commissioner for Transportation, Mr. KayodeOpeifa, said he had nothing more to say about the menace of tanker drivers along the Apapa -Oshodi expressway.

Kayode Opeifa

Opeifa who led the team that evacuated 120 tankers from the expressway, said during the exercise that being a responsible and responsive government, Lagos would ensure that every citizen moves freely on the axis and not only the tankers or trucks carrying containers.

He added that the enlightenment and enforcement exercise would also continue as government would not relent until tanker drivers park on one lane of the service lane. Opeifa, while calling on the public to take possession of the road, urged them to inform the Ministry of Transportation of any broken down or abandoned tankers and trucks on Apapa – Oshodi Expressway.

He lamented the environmental nuisances caused on Apapa – Oshodi Expressway, including vehicle repairs on the road and excreting in the drainage and urged leaders of the Petroleum Drivers Tankers Nigeria, PTD branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, to educate their members and ensure that the tanker drivers desist from unhealthy attitude as this could pose danger to the healthy living conditions of Lagos residents.

The commissioner who said the state government was not unaware of the problems posed by the failure of petroleum distribution system in the country, particularly in Lagos, however, urged the Ministry of Petroleum and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to rise to the challenge of petroleum distribution and ensure that only tankers, which adequate provision have been made for, are issued with tickets to come to Lagos to load petroleum products.