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By Bimbola Oyesola
Workers in the maritime sector has berated the act of barbarism meted on truckers at Tin Can Island Port last Tuesday by hoodlums allegedly hired by a Lagos State Committee at the port.
The workers under the umbrella of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), noted that the crisis which lasted for hours on the day had many of the Maritime truckers attacked with machetes and other dangerous weapons, leaving them (truckers) with various degrees of injuries.
The President General of the union, Adewale Adeyanju said the thugs
in their large numbers wielding all kinds of dangerous weapons came into the Tin Can Port to impose illegal sales of tickets at the gate beginning from the Tin Can Port.
“It was the heated argument between the hoodlums and the Truck drivers that gave rise to the ugly crisis,” he said.
Adeyanju said it took the efforts of the security agencies at the port to douse the tension after a serious exchange of gunshots by the hoodlums and the security agencies.
“The union frown at this incessant criminality that’s always giving room to persons and groups of people or associations, who have no business at the port and within the axis, coming to breach the peace of doing legitimate businesses in the maritime sector,” he said.
He recalled that several attacks from the same faceless associations also rocked the Tin Can Port claiming lives and destroying vehicles at the port.
He however charged security personnel at the port to be vigilant, stating that, “the Maritime Workers Union is appealing to all the security agencies at the ports to please be vigilant and be more proactive in the security of persons, Truckers, and property in and around the ports.
Reiterating the importance of maintaining peace at the nation’s port,
he maintained that no good business thrives in the face of hostilities and crisis, as the port has experienced in recent times.
