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Maritime Varsity And NIMASA May Be Scrapped by Blacksodje(m): 11:07am On Jan 20, 2016 |
The federal government says the Nigerian Maritime
University project started by former President
Goodluck Jonathan “is a waste of resources” and
may be scrapped.
It has also threatened to scrap the Nigerian
Maritime Administration and Safety Agency
(NIMASA).
The university was started by Jonathan to quicken
the development of human capacity to take over
the Cabotage trade “in the very near future”.
But Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation,
told the senate committee on marine transport on
Tuesday that the university may be scrapped.
Amaechi expressed dissatisfaction with the
operation of the agency, saying NIMASA had
nothing to show for the N63billion revenue it
generated in the previous year.
He alleged that NIMASA outsourced its
responsibility to Government Ekpemupolo, ex-
militant leader better known as Tompolo.
“I don’t think we are proceeding with the
university being proposed by NIMASA because it is
a waste of resources, and unfortunately a lot of
money had already been released for the university
project hence there is no structure on ground but
just the feasibility study,” he said.
“The Chinese company contracted, confirmed that
only the feasibility study was in place.
“We are not going ahead with the university
project proposed by NIMASA because we have an
institution in Oron, we have Nigeria Institute of
Transport Technology, Zaria, and we have the
Nigerian College of Aviation in Zaria which we could
upgrade to a University status and NIMASA is
proposing to build a new one.”
He said the agency was being run in a way which
appears as if its main mandate was to collect
levies.
“Currently, the way NIMASA is, it looks as if it was
established just for the purpose of collecting
money and nothing more,” he said.
“If NIMASA failed to perform its core
responsibility, then it has no business existing. If it
is just to collect money from individuals, anybody
can do that. We can hire a tax collector to collect
money from maritime operators on behalf of
federal ministry of transport.
“It is either NIMASA sit up and carry out its own
responsibility or we come to the national assembly
to repeal the act setting it up.”
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