MWUN frowns at attacks on truck drivers, wants port security agencies to be vigilant
MWUN frowns at attacks on truck drivers, wants port security agencies to be vigilant
Segun Oladipupo
The leadership of the Maritime Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has condemned the recent attacks allegedly unleashed on truck drivers at the Tincan Island Port by by hoodlums suspected to have been hired by the Lagos State Cargo & Transport Committee (LASTCOC).
The union in a statement, said that the trucker’s were attacked with matchets and other dangerous weapons leaving the trucker’s with degrees of injuries.
President General of the union, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju stated in the release that the union frowned at the incessant criminality that is always giving room to persons and group of people or associations, who have no business at the port and within the axis, coming to breach the peace of doing legitimate businesses at the maritime sector.
Text of the release, “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 Thugs in their large numbers wielding all kinds of dangerous weapons came into the Tincan Port to impose illegal sales of ticket at the gate beginning from the Tincan Port. It was the ensued heated argument between the hoodlums and the Truck drivers that gave rise to the ugly crisis.
“It took the efforts of the security agencies at the port to douse the tension after serious exchange of gunshots by the hoodlums and the security agencies.
“We as a Union frowns at this incessant criminality that’s always giving room to persons and group of people or associations, who have no business at the port and within the axis, coming to breach the peace of doing legitimate businesses at the maritime sector.
“It would be recalled that several attacks from same faceless associations also rocked the Tincan Port claiming lives and destroying vehicles at the port.
“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, as no good business thrives in the face of hostilities and crisis as we have experienced in recent times.”
