Following the successful election of the new executives of the Nigerian Ship owners Association (NISA) last Friday in Lagos, stakeholders have continued to reel out their expectation of the newly elected executives of the association.
Speaking in an interview with Primetime Reporters, the Managing Director of Fablo Ventures Limited, Capt. Ogunsakin Rotimi Ishola Williams said that he would want the new executives to focus their attention towards bringing back their jobs which had been taken away by the foreigners.
Capt. Williams stated that he would also want to see how these aliens who had virtually taken over every aspect of the nation’s shipping business would be made to stay away not only from the containerized area but also from the nation’s coastal waters.
According to him,” what I expect from them and I will continue to ask them now that I am in the system is how they can bring back the jobs to Nigerians and how we can be able to remove the aliens away not only from the containerized area but also from our coastal waters. That is what I want from them”.
“I also want to see how they will get NIMASA (Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency) to make the Cabotage Act work. If they can do those two things, we are lifted up”.
Also speaking, another stakeholder, Mr. Akin Olaniyo expressed the hope that with the election of the new executive for the association, they would work to end the prevailing cases of foreign vessels coming to do illegal businesses on the shores of Nigeria.
He also believed that with the new executive on board the ship of NISA, NIMASA’s job had been lightened as the ship owners could now come together to proffer solutions and advice on how best to move the shipping industry to the next level.
“Now, they will come around, let us listen to them. I am not in the executive; let us listen to what they will say. Do you realize that this election has been heralded in Europe because many of the European Companies, they bring ships here to come and do illegal work. Now, all those ones, they are jittery. It will stop and NIMASA will be in firm control”.
“I will say more congratulations to NIMASA because right now, the way things are now, I believe NIMASA’s job has been lightened, the ship owners can now with one voice come up to proffer solutions and advice to NIMASA unlike before when it was more of scattered thing, everybody to his own tent”, Olaniyo stated.
