The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime
Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has disclosed
that the Agency’s 2017 budget is tailored towards the strategic growth and
other developmental initiatives of the maritime sector.
The DG who said this recently during the 2017 budget defence
session at the National Assembly in Abuja before the Senate Committee on Marine
Transport, Chaired by Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima stated that the
Agency is committed to actualizing its core mandates and to grow the maritime
sector for the benefit of indigenous operators and the entire nation.
Dr. Peterside observed that the Agency targets
strategic growth in five critical areas in the year 2017 namely; maintaining maritime safety and security to bring piracy to
its lowest level, maintenance of a clean maritime environment and enhanced port
state control, human and infrastructural capacity as well as sanitizing the maritime
environment to eliminate sharp practices, while increasing revenue generation
for economic growth.
While assuring the Committee members that
revenue leakages will be plugged through the Agency’s digitalization processes,
he noted that NIMASA will also embark on an aggressive debt recovery programme,
all geared towards enhancing the efficiency of the maritime sector.
“It is expected that the dollar rate will drop drastically through
Federal Government’s intervention policies and in turn allow room for more
investors. Let me also
assure Nigerians’ that the present Management of NIMASA is committed to
ensuring transparency in all its processes, accountability and probity in the
discharge of its mandate towards making Nigeria a hub of maritime
activities in Africa”, the DG stated.
It may be recalled that the NIMASA in the last
one year has embarked on several Stakeholder engagements and campaigns towards
the actualization of its mandate in growing the shipping industry in Nigeria
and to make it rank high among the comity of maritime nations, and suitable for
both foreign and local investors.
NIMASA is the government
body solely responsible for the promotion of indigenous shipping and
ensuring maritime safety and security on the nation’s waterwa
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