Lagos Tanker Driver To Stop Loading Petroleum Amidst E-Call Up

By Mohammed Adekola

Tanker drivers in Lagos State says they will stop loading petroleum products today Monday, June 16, claiming they cannot afford N12,500 per truck for the E-Call Up system on the Lekki-Epe Corridor.

The tanker drivers, under the aegis of the National Association of Road Transport Owners, said they could only pay N2,500 per truck.

The association President Yusuf Othman said the association was still in talks with the Lagos State Government to allow its members to pay N2,500 per truck instead of N12,500.

“For now, we are still negotiating with Lagos State Government. The N12,500 is too high. We recommended N2,500 from the beginning. Let’s see how it goes and if we can reach an amicable resolution. But if the government does not agree, our boys will not go and load” Othman said.

The Permanent Secretary of Lagos State Ministry of Transportation, Olawale Musa, said the N12,500 was not going into government coffers, the money was for the use of the facility built for the drivers in the Lekki axis to avert gridlocks and environmental pollution.

He added that the facility was built by a private investor that the union and the drivers should try to obey rules and regulations to prevent Lekki-Epe corridor from turning into the old Apapa road.