Amaechi disappointed, orders comprehensive audit in NIMASA

The Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amechi has ordered for a comprehensive audit of contracts awarded in the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Management Agency, NIMASA since the establishment of the agency.

Amechi disclosed this at his familiarization tour on the agency, Nigerian Ports Authority and Nigerian Shippers Council in Lagos on Monday. The Minister explicitly registered his disappointment over some inadequacies in NIMASA. At the Nigerian Ports Authority headquarters in Marina, the Minister was amiably received by the management team led by its managing Director, Mallam Habib Abdullahi.



Furiously, he stated, “I have asked the Director of Finance for the records of all contracts awarded since the establishment of NIMASA. Everywhere is unkempt. One wonders where all the billions of naira spent by NIMASA went.”

The Minister also didn’t mince words to criticize the monumental inadequacies in the operation of the agency particularly, the search and rescue facilities which he emphatically stated are part of the basic object of the agency, hence inevitable. He said, “I cannot see any search and rescue equipment. Perhaps, it is kept on the water”.  He impliedly added that the era of triviality and laxity is gone in all public service essentially in highly sensitive agency like NIMASA.