KIRIKIRI CANAL

The Kirikiri canal is the demarcation or boundary between Wilmer Olodo Apapa, Mile two, Mazamaza and Berger Cement and Apapa environs. The link bridge to Kirikiri town is constructed over this canal. There are other several bridges constructed over the canal.

It was an unusual sight today as barges (a large-flat bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo) carrying about one hundred cars each in a convoy.

We observed and by information, not speculation that those cars were actually imported into the country without a container. These cars were being taken to their terminal called "Ro-ro or Row-row terminal" through the Kirikiri canal. Immediately the barge docks along Ro-ro station located at Berger, Otto-Wharf then drivers who are already on standby, drive them into the terminal.

The Ro-ro terminal is strictly for used imported cars that come into the country without a container. Several dock yards are located along the Kirikiri canal such as engineering companies that manufacture barges and repair small ocean elements. A lot of Jetty's are located on Kirikiri canal and it is also a means of local transportation.

This initiative by the logistics department of the Nigerian Port Authority NPA is a practical applied and working method to decrease road congestion in Lagos state and it is a good means of transportation for such kind of goods.

The canal was thought to be useless and unproductive or perhaps a big gutter way until jetty's, ship yards and boat manufacturing stations was created on the canal thereby making it an official inland water way.

Kirikiri canal is being used for transportation of goods and people from one point to the other. Kirikiri canal is not a waste after all.