Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state. Facebook
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has said the state will employ 1,000 teachers to help drive the education sector.
Ambode said this on Tuesday at the Third Quarter Town Hall Meeting, the 12th in the series, at the Community Primary School in Ibeju Lekki Local Government Area.
He also ordered for the immediate recruitment of a physically-challenged resident Michael Ogunyemi.
On the constant gridlock in Apapa, the governor called on the federal government to get other ports in the country working in order to solve the problem.
“This issue has become perennial and in the last six years, it has always been there. It comes and goes, but the challenge is to be able to find a permanent solution.
“We believe strongly that every layer of government should collaborate to resolve this Apapa crisis.”
As stated by him, “It is bad that we still use truck to lift petroleum products from Apapa to other parts of the country.
“As it is now, other ports in Nigeria must begin to work immediately to decongest gridlock in Lagos; what has led to the use of trucks to lift fuel, which is vandalism of pipelines, should be addressed immediately.
“We believe that this will allow the roads to become free. We don’t need to continuously use taxpayers’ money to build roads that will be destroyed by tankers.”