By Udeme Akpan, Godwin Oritse & Efe Onodjae
Oil cartels, independent petroleum marketers, tanker owners, drivers, transport unions and some enforcement agencies have been accused of sustaining the perennial traffic gridlock in the Lagos’ Apapa and Kirikiri corridors, crippling businesses, disrupting residents’ daily lives and hampering economic activities.
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Findings by Vanguard showed that thousands of businesses, commuters and residents in the Apapa-Kirikiri industrial and commercial axis continue to bear the enormous economic and social costs of the persistent congestion.
At the centre of the crisis are petroleum distribution activities involving marketers, tanker operators and enforcement agencies, whose operations have increasingly spilled onto public roads.
