The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mallam Habib Abdullahi has said the organisation will welcome the infusion of Japanese advanced technology in critical areas of infrastructural development in form of Public Private Partnership.
Speaking yesterday at the NPA headquarters, the representative of the Managing Director and the General Manager Capital Projects, Engr. Rufai Mohammed assured the visiting Japanese delegation that the Management of NPA would expeditiously list out technical and infrastructural needs of the organisation, since the Japanese government through the visitor had promised to help.
Engr. Mohammed added that NPA was currently involved in massive infrastructural renewal projects from her Headquarters, Quay length rehabilitation in Onne, Warri and Lagos ports.
He added that the organization’s 25years Development Plan would soon be ready and that would be a compendium of these developmental projects.
Going down memory lane, Engr. Mohammed added that NPA had benefited in training programmes by the Japanese government in the past, and that it was a welcome development that such assistance was being put forward again.
The representative of the Managing Director also said being a bilateral issue, he expect the visit to further unite and improve the collaboration between the two countries, especially now that NPA was embarking on capital Intensive port reforms with the desire to be the leading port in Africa.
Earlier in his speech on behalf of the Japanese government, the Section Manager of Urban and Transportation Planning Group of the Yachiyo Engineering Company Limited, Mr. Yasuhiro Yamauchi added that the Japanese government was ready to partner with NPA in particular and Nigeria in general especially in the area of technical abilities that would be useful for different projects in the country.
The Japanese representative asserted that his country was ready to help the African Continent but that they want to start with Nigeria because of her population and economy.
In the company of Mr. Yamauchi are; Esmael Mohame, Engr. B.O Jegede and Mrs. Olumese Beatrice while on the side of NPA management were, the General Manager Monitoring, Mr. Obumneme Onuenyenwa, General Manager Special Duties, Mrs. Carol Ufere, Personal Assistant to the Managing Director, Yitnoe Stanley, Mr. B.E. Jonah of the Commercial Department.
PHOTO CAPTION -L-R Mr Obumneme Onuenyenwa ,General Manager ,Monitoring and Compliance, Engr. Rufai Mohammed , General Manager Capital Projects Representing the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority ,Habib Abdullahi and Mr. Yasuhiro Yamauchi ,Section Manager Urban and Transportation Planning Group of the Yachiyo Engeering Company Limited receiving a plague at the visit to Marian HQ .
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