Oppositions are mounting heavily here and there against the proposed come back or renewal of the contact of the ETO Call-UP System at the port.<\/p>\n
Recall that the ETO Call-UP System was being handled and managed by Truck Transit Park Limited (TTP) on behalf of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA for some years now but the contract just ended and is recently being currently reviewed.<\/p>\n
News Emperor gathered that popular Views from maritime stakeholders are not comfortable with it’s planned comeback.<\/p>\n
Some are even arguring that the build up gridlock is almost coming back as a result of state actors who benefit from the traffic congestion on APAPA road as well as some gullible NPA staff at the gates who insist they must collect whatever before a truck finds its way into the port.<\/p>\n
According to findings, TTP company was the pioneer contractor engaged by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in February 2021 to drive the e- call up system at its commencement at the Nigerian ports.<\/p>\n
Having ended their five- year contract last February while the NPA is set to review the contract again, some people have contrary views over their retainment.<\/p>\n
It was acknowledged that the management of TTP have started lobbying the NPA management already to endure their comeback for business. This, the stakeholders believe was because of how juccy and lucrative the contract was to them.<\/p>\n
Currently, these contrary opinions of some stakeholders are calling on the NPA to ignore the lobbying and statagic monovering of the TTP management.<\/p>\n
But rather listening to popular Views requesting that the contract be given out to a more fissible and active contractor, who will handle it well and better than TTP Ltd.<\/p>\n
They insisted that though the project must not die but instead should be given out to a more competent and reliable company which is opposed to corruption tendencies as corruption from mared their efforts.<\/p>\n
Reports also have it that the stakeholders have this argument that, though the electronic truck movement system is a welcome development in the Nigerian Ports operations, it was also a laudable initiative but was married by fraud , corruption and gross inefficiency as the TTP officials used the system to extort truckers. That this time these critical issued must be sorted out first.<\/p>\n
Those with this view are saying that if given to a more better contractor as the e-call up system on its own is a noble project that have helped in decongesting the port access roads but was not well handled due to corrupt tendencies.<\/p>\n
The Council of Maritime Transport Unions and Associations (COMTUA) has expressed strong opposition to the contract renewal, citing allegations of fraud, extortion, and inefficiency in the TTP.<\/p>\n
COMTUA, according media reports noted that the system has caused financial burden and, at times, worsened, rather than improved, the waiting times for trucks.<\/p>\n
The group therefore pleaded with the management of the NPA to consider other more efficient solutions for managing port access.
\nStakeholders readily pointed to the plate number and ticket frauds which rocked the system.<\/p>\n
Information gathered by News Emperor that media source also have it that during the crisis period, plate number and cloning fraud emerged as major methods used to sabotage the Electronic Call-up System (\u201cEto\u201d) at Nigerian ports, enabling unapproved trucks to gain access to port terminals.<\/p>\n
It was equally on the news also that syndicates and fraudulent truckers have been caught using fake, duplicated, or borrowed license plates numbers to match Eto tickets.<\/p>\n
This, again, the stakeholders view as a practice that undermined and made caricature of the automated system and had succeeded in bringing back traffic gridlock back to Apapa.<\/p>\n
Truckers often duplicate the plate number of a vehicle with a valid Eto ticket and attached it to an unauthorized truck.<\/p>\n
Fraudsters engage in \u201cproxy booking,\u201d where they generated tickets for fake or non-existent trucks and then use those tickets for other vehicles by swapping plate numbers at the gate.<\/p>\n
There is this allegation of racketeering of valid Eto tickets, a situation where such tickets are frequently resold at inflated prices (up to \u20a6450,000 against a \u20a621,000 official rate), a media report had indicated.<\/p>\n
Within the period, it was also alleged that the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) intercepted hundreds of fake plate numbers and counterfeit Minimum Safety Standard (MSS) stickers in single raids, particularly around the MPS pre-gate in Apapa.<\/p>\n
It was these and other fraudulent acts perpetrated under the management of ETO by the TPP that made stakeholders to advised the NPA not to renew the contract with the company.
\nSpeaking at a roundtable programme held at the International Press Centre, Apapa, a notable stakeholder, Alhaji (Dr.) Segun Musa toed the same line.
\n\u201cRenewal of the TPP contract will be a monumental error by the NPA because the company used the system to extort and overburdened the truckers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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