Eto can tackle traffic difficulties anywhere in the world – TTP

Nigeria’s leading tech company, Trucks Transit Parks (TTP) says its E-Callup System app, Eto, is capable of providing solutions for all challenges associated with truck movements across Nigeria and West African countries.

Mr. Jama Onwubuariri, TPP Managing Director, said the company had held discussions with 24 Nigerian states on the deployment of Eto technology to solve their traffic problems.

Onwubuariri added that TTP top management staff recently embarked on a roadtrip of West African countries to understudy problems associated with truck movements and how the company could deploy Eto tech to solve these problems.

The TTP Managing Director disclosed this development during the week in an interaction with the media in Apapa, Lagos, on the progresses, challenges and future outlook of the company.

“Nigeria is not just the giant, but also the heartbeat of Africa. We have a local proverb: “Use your place to know my place”. A global iteration of this proverb, as it applies to Africa, is that when Nigeria coughs, Africa catches a cold. If you want to check if something is in Africa, just come to Nigeria.

“Recently, I had the privilege of embarking on a strategic trip across the ECOWAS subregion. What I experienced was both sobering and inspiring. From Lagos to Ouagadougou, Abidjan, Monrovia, and other West African routes, the story is similar: heavy reliance on trucking, coupled with bottlenecks at borders, tolls, and highway corridors.

“The traffic management platform TTP has built in Nigeria is not just a national solution. Ètò is a model that would be scaled regionally. Imagine if every ECOWAS country operated a harmonised port truck scheduling, rest stop, and electronic tolling system that supports the multiple currencies used in the region—how much faster goods would move, how much cheaper trade would become, and how much closer we would be to realising the promise of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

“TTP stands ready to play in that space, to collaborate with ECOWAS and support regional governments in deploying technology that will make seamless intra-African trade not just a vision, but a reality.

“This our roadmap is ambitious, but it is necessary if Nigeria is to remain competitive and if West Africa is to unlock its full trade potential. We will achieve it!” Onwubuariri submitted,

On the funding of the huge expansion projects, Mr. Richard Emenim, Head of Corporate Development, who made a presentation on the expansion, said all the TTP tech products have global acceptance as the company is considering collaboration with local and international financiers to fund the expansion.

Emenim said “On the aspect of financial capabilities of different expansion projects, I would like to use the quote from Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs has a popular quote that says that if any company fails to meet our needs, that company should be taken to bank. So, if we only think as a company, we only fold our hands and think we are local champions, then we are only joking.

“Interestingly, when it comes to expansion, one thing that major companies usually do is that you don’t build your products for local consumption only. You build your products such that that product is accessible to the global consumer. One thing we have often reiterated is to state that the technology we have is what is applicable or what can be exported to other states in Nigeria and also other African regions.

“Based on our research, based on our studies, if you take our products and deploy them to any of these West African regions, it will work successfully. Why? Because a lot of the challenges and technological issues that we have there are what this solution is trying to solve. So, when you have such products, when you have such solutions that has this global acceptance, even if you don’t have the financial muscle to be able to take up such projects, what you do is go into collaboration with financiers.

“I can tell you as of today that the technology or the solution or the products we are selling have a global acceptance, regional acceptance and these Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) are already interested in our products and they are willing to collaborate with us. So, that’s what we are seeing.

“These DFIs and others are ready to finance infrastructure projects. What they only need to do is to assess your project concept. Is your project concept a business case? Does it have any global relevance? Is it commercially viable? So, once they are able to assess a number of these things, your technology, your business model, your actual projection, your technology acceptance and alignments within the region you want to do it, I can tell you they will be ready to back you provided those DFIs are always interested.

“So, what the idea has is global acceptance. The idea has a peculiar solution. It wants to solve not only for the Nigerian market but also for Africa and the rest of the world.”

On the company’s achievements, Onwubuariri said over 3 million truck trips successfully scheduled through Ètò since inception while there is a drastic reduction in gridlock and improved truck and cargo turnaround time.

He added that there is an enhanced compliance with Minimum Safety Standards for trucks as the company had introduced smarter payment platforms to improve the ease of payments for bookings.

On racketeering of the Eto ticket, Onwubuariri said there are continuous upgrades to the Ètò platform—closing loopholes, tightening controls, and enhancing user experience.

“This is not just about technology; it is about restoring confidence in the possibility that our ports can be efficient and compete favourably with others in the region.

“I am proud to say that Ètò has changed the narrative. Port roads, once infamous for unending gridlock, are now more orderly and predictable. Access to the ports is no longer based on who you know or how rugged your boys are, but on a pre-set, transparent, technology-enabled process,” said he, pointing out that there are ongoing partnerships with the Nigerian Ports Authority, terminal operators, security agencies, unions, and associations to sustain the progress.”