The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has
bemoaned the challenge of overloaded trucks by drivers who ply bad roads in the
country.
While decrying the trend by truck drivers and heavy-duty vehicle
operators, Fashola said such actions were at the expense of other road users
and appealed to the government and citizens to put an end to it.
He made the call during an appearance before the House of
Representatives Committee on Works over the 2022 budget proposal defence.
Fashola said many big businessmen carry out their activities
at the expense of the common assets of Nigerians.
He said, “Some people are doing business at the expense of
everybody. So what they should carry, 60-70 tonnes in three trucks, they are
cheating by loading onto one truck and they are destroying our common asset.
Let people just do the proper thing; we sort the approval of Mr. President
after we subscribed to the ECOWAS treaty to start implanting. The Minister said
he had approved that enforcement be done from the largest loading points which
are mostly the ports and NNPC depots.
“In some of the ports, we discovered that some of the
private sectors who are operating the ports have a significant number of their
weighing instruments calibrated so we have been working to remedy that.
“We have support from the ports but the operators in the
ports are the problem. We also have support from the NNPC but what the NNPC has
reported at follow up meetings as a problem to major implementation is that,
when the trucks load 30,000 litres, they then go outside of the depot and
decant into one truck.”
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