NISA Tasks Amaechi On Need To Heed Advice

                  
The Nigeria Indigenous Ship-owners Association (NISA) has raised concerns regarding the ability of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to address the challenges of the nation’s maritime sector in a situation where some critical stakeholders are excluded in key policy matters. The Minister has therefore been asked to keep open ears and to carry everybody along. NISA, through her president, Capt. Dada Labinjo, was reacting to the ongoing pact Nigeria recently signed with a Singaporean consortium on the establishment of a national fleet.


The association regretted that it was not carried along in the ongoing arrangement, and urged the Minister to have a listening ear.

“Nigerian maritime had never seen it this bad. The past nine years or so have witnessed declining fortunes for the stakeholders in the sector but the current Minister’s efforts, if properly guided, may likely rejuvenate and reinvigorate the sector if only he can listen to the proper stakeholders and professionals and not the sharks looking for government funding to plunder”,

“He has to stop saying he has made up his mind and therefore forecloses any advice that may assist him. Certainly, that will not be right.

According to Labinjo, if the minister ignores the good and professional counseling coming his way, he will join his predecessors who came, saw but did not conquer and the beats (will) go on. He compares it all to the proverbial barracks where soldiers come and go while the barracks remains. “It will always remain soldier go, soldier come, barrack remains the same. What matters, is how each Minister is remembered. The maritime sectors and the stakeholders will always see the back of the Minister who comes to serve in the sector and not vice versa”, Labinjo stated, describing the current state of the sector as appalling.
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PIX: Rotimi Amaechi and Capt Labinjo.