The Council of Maritime Transport Unions and Association (COMTUA) has expressed deep concerns over the introduction of a validity period by Truck Transit Park (TTP) Limited, stating categorically that the system is not working, three years after its introduction.
It therefore urged the NPA to innovate a more productive system, while also stating that the system of validity period by TTP has milked truckers and the economy a whooping sum of N300 billion within three years, yet has remained inefficient in addressing the traffic gridlock around the port access road which it was intended to tackle.
These were contained in a letter by the National President of COMTUA, Adeyinka Aroyewun, to the Managing Director of NPA on Wednesday.
The letter categorically stated that COMTUA rejects TTP/ETO based on its inefficiency and called for an alternative system that would address the challenge of traffic menace around the port access road.
The letter read: “We received with concern the news about the introduction of a validity period by Truck Transit Park Limited and wish to advise the Nigerian Ports Authority to reason outside the box of TTP/ETO.
“It is no longer news that the system is not working, three years after its introduction.
“One wonders why the Nigerian Ports Authority will continue to “Reinforce Failure”.
“The traffic congestion, which TTP was employed to resolve, is getting worse. It becomes disturbing the continuous rhetoric of the Nigerian Ports Authority on this failed system that has milked truckers and the Nigerian economy of over #300 Billion without a meaningful achievement in three years.
“The expectation of truckers and the entire economy is an alternative system that can offer a solution to the traffic gridlock we are witnessing around the Port Access Road and not another avenue for further exploitation of truckers.
“We reject TTP and its ETO solution that has failed to address the challenges on the road.”
“This “Ticket Validity Period” idea can best be described as “doing things the same way” and will always yield the same result.
“We desire a more productive system.”