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Hadiza Bala Usman, managing director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has urged AG Dangote the contractor handling Apapa/Wharf Road to improve its performance.

Usman made the plea after inspecting the Wharf access roads in the company of her management team in Lagos on Saturday, noting that better performance would reduce the stress in doing business at the ports.

“The construction commenced on July 17 and they have not been able to reach the optimum performance as expected,” she said.

“They are still within one to two per cent completion stage and one to two per cent of what they required to deploy within this period.

“They have indicated the concerns and constraints they have around relocation of utilities, they have identified and found gas pipelines underneath the road works.

“They are working on relocating roads and they also identified electric cables and poles that need to be relocated and other forms of utilities.

“I had made them understood that their level of performance is unacceptable, they need to increase and deploy more efficiently.”

The Project Manager, Ministry of Works, Kesha Olukorede (L), briefing the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Usman on the state of the ongoing Apapa-Wharf Road rehabilitation

Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Usman (M); Senior Project Manager, AG Dangote, Paulo Cachadinha (R); and Project Manager, Ministry of Works, Mrs Kesha Olukorede (L)

Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Usman (2nd R); and other NPA officials during the tour of the ongoing rehabilitation of Apapa-Wharf road