Shammeh warns truck drivers to stop illegal parking

By Damilola Kushimo

The Chairman of Isolo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Hon. Shamsudeen Olaleye (Shammeh) has warned owner of  petrol tanker terminals and truck drivers against illegal parking along Ago Palace Way, stating that any truck found on the expressway or inner streets would be seized.

 

Shammeh announced this as part of the resolutions made in an urgent stakeholders’ meeting held between the council leadership, terminal and truck owners, as well as residents of the community and councilors representing Apena and Okota Wards, Hon. Remy Shittu and Hon. Kanayo Osondu.

 

The meeting was summoned following the complaint of  the residents of incessant indiscriminate parking of trucks on the expressway, which was affecting movement in the community.

 

Warning the terminal operators, the council boss said: “Your business must be done within the ambit  of the law. Nobody has the right to park on the roadside or inside streets, you must ensure that your trailers don’t spend more than two minutes on the road before being parked inside your premises.

 

“We’ll set up a task force, any trailer we find by the roadside will be clamped. We will work with Lagos State Task force, there must be sanity.

 

“We shall show more interest in what happens in that area. We need orderliness, we have responsibility to ensure that people don’t die unduly as a result of indiscriminate trucks parking. We don’t have to wait till someone of high profile dies before we curtail the menace.”

 

The meeting was however adjourned till Wednesday, November 27, 2019 for further discussion and assessment after the council chairman had charged and encouraged the terminal owners to be responsive to the local government and their host community in terms of Corporate Social Responsibilities.

 

The council Leader, Hon. Remy, appreciated the chairman for urgently responding to the complaint, urging the terminal owners to be law abiding.

 

He noted that the move would help in identifying those who have no parking lots and defy the State traffic law.