From left: Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Mohammed Bello-Koko presents a plaque to the Executive Secretary/CEO, Lagos State Security Trust Fund, Dr. Abdurrazaq Balogun during a working visit to the Marina, Lagos headquarters of the NPA recently.

The Nigerian Ports Authority NPA, has said it is willing to partner the Lagos State Government on its efforts to enhance the security of lives and property in the state.

Managing Director of the authority, Mohammed Bello-koko made this pledge when he played host to the Executive Secretary/CEO, Lagos State Security Trust Fund LSSTF, Dr. Abdurrazaq Balogun, who was on a working visit to the agency recently.

The Managing Director noted that while the management under his watch is committed to ensuring security at the seaports, it would also do everything within its powers to support every genuine effort to enhance security across the entire length and breadth of Lagos State.

Meanwhile, the Lagos State Security Trust Fund boss, Balogun, who spoke earlier, disclosed that the aim of the visit was to felicitate with the management of the NPA and also commend it for all the lofty programmes being implement by the management.

Citing the truck electronic call-up system also called ‘eto’, which has curtailed the influx of trucks and other articulated vehicles into Apapa, which houses the country’s two biggest cargo seaports, the Lagos Ports Complex and Tin Can Island Ports, Dr Balogun noted that the reduction of the gridlock has enhanced the quality of life as well as promoting businesses, many of which were comatose while the traffic lasted

He argued that the deployment of the technology-driven traffic management system, which has drastically reduced the seemingly perennial gridlock in Apapa and environs, would also enhance security by reducing traffic-related crimes and other offences not only within the port community but also across Lagos State.