The massive gridlock on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway has been blamed on the refusal of "powerful merchants" to obey a subsisting order of the Lagos State government restricting the movements of articulated vehicles in the State.
The government also attributed the logjam to an ongoing industrial action by a section of workers at the Apapa ports which has slowed down the pace of goods clearance as well as the slow pace of repair works on the roads leading to the ports.
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