Lagos – The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has donated a pick-up van to the Federal Roads Committee on Surveillance Action Against Road Abuse (FERCSARA), to aid the committee’s work in decongesting Lagos ports’ access roads.
A statement by the NSC on Thursday in Lagos said the Executive Secretary of NSC, Mr Hassan Bello, noted that the vehicle was donated as part of the Council’s Corporate Social Responsibility.
Bello was represented at the presentation of the vehicle by Mr Cajetah Agu, Deputy-Director, Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement.
He said the Council was responding to the request from the committee for an operational vehicle to facilitate its activities.
The executive secretary urged members of the committee to make judicious use of the vehicle to justify the collaborative efforts of the council in restoring sanity in all the ports’ access roads.
The Chairman, South West Zone 2 Special Task Force of FERCSARA, Chief Austine Kelly expressed the appreciation of his committee toward the gesture displayed by the management of the NSC.
According to him, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, as the Ports Economic Regulator, is like a `father’ to different players in the maritime sector.
Kelly said the committee would always support the NSC’s aspiration of tackling the Apapa gridlock. (NAN)