The Lagos State Government has
expressed commitment to the development of a multi-modal transport system to
boost the business of the people and accelerate the economic growth of the
state.
This, it said, was in line with its
aim of expanding the current scope of its partnership with the private sector
in transportation.
The Lagos State Governor, Mr.
Babatude Fashola, stated this, adding that the state government was set to tap
into numerous opportunities presented by the maritime sector to secure a space
in marine transportation business.
Fashola was quoted in a statement on
Tuesday as saying this at the second annual Nigeria Transport Award and Lecture
held in Lagos and organised by the Transport Day News magazine, on Friday.
The governor, who was represented by
the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Mr. Oluseyi Coker, said
communities within the coastal region were no longer challenged in the area of
moving goods and services to the mainland.
He also announced that about 1.5
million passengers had been ferried through the waterways, adding that the
state was looking at bringing new partners to invest in various forms of
transportation; whereby government would provide the environment to ensure
competitiveness and adequate financial reward on investment.
“We have a school of transport
which runs as a full faculty and we intend to bring in skills in the industry
to ensure qualified persons are brought in to drive the process” he said.
He commended various transport
unions that had partnered the state in the Bus Rapid Transit and promised that
it would allow a similar understanding to prevail in other areas of the
transport system.
Earlier, in his lecture titled ‘The
Logistics industry in Nigeria, challenges and opportunities’, the Chairman
Board of Trustees, Institute of Logistics Management Nigeria, Mr. Ibukun
Akinduro, said the country had largely operated a uni-modal system which posed
serious challenges to the logistics sector.
He also observed that the dearth of
infrastructure had been a major problem militating against the growth of the
sector.
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