The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman has reiterated Management concern over the safety and security of operations and activities on the nation’s territorial waters.
She said this through the organization’s Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Mohammed Bello Koko who represented her when the Federal Government team for the implementation of the Harmonized Standard Operating Procedure on the arrest, detention and prosecution of offenders in the maritime environment, paid a working visit to the corporate headquarters of the NPA at Marina, Lagos.
Addressing stakeholders during the session, the Managing Director pledged to synergize with the Committee in order to holistically harmonize issues from stakeholders towards covering all areas of concern in respect of the subject in the front burner.
She stated that the NPA management was paying premium towards contributing effectively in the area of providing arrested vessels’ location on the nation’s waters while calling for swift actions to be taken in order to evacuate such vessels, an activity she said would create a better enabling environment for greater operational efficiency, admit a safe and secured environment and restore sanity at the anchorages.
She added that it would help generate more funds for the nation.
She further stated that the NPA was soliciting support from stakeholders on the subject adding that the place of information sharing in attaining a successful task in that respect cannot be over emphasized.
Earlier the Chairman of the Committee, Rear Admiral FD Bobai informed the NPA Management that the Committee came as part of her sensitization efforts at parleying with stakeholders to ensure adequate collaboration and cooperation in efforts aimed at coordinating the agenda and targets set before them so as to bring about a safe maritime harbours in line with best practices.
Rear Admiral Bobai told stakeholders that the major agenda facing the committee was to partner with regional and sub-regional governance on maritime safety and security for the nation to harness plausible natural endowment accruable to her by nature and consequently join the comity of successful maritime nations.
He commended the NPA for milestones achieved in various facets and enjoined that they should not relent as the task of lifting the nation up was for all.
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