The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has rolled out the Agency’s Medium Term Strategic Growth Plan for the maritime industry.
Peterside said that NIMASA was facing dearth of fund to pay workers salaries and execute projects.
He disclosed this on Wednesday during an interactive session with journalists to mark his 100 days in office at the Rockview Hotel In Apapa .
Peterside said that if not because of the ingenuity of the management, the agency would have found it difficult to pay workers’ salaries.
The Director General noted that the Medium Term Strategic Growth Plan covering three years is built around his core mission at NIMASA which is to Reform, Restructure and Reposition the Agency for sustainable growth and development of the maritime industry.
According to Peterside, the strategy document was built on five pillars including Survey, Inspection and Certification Transformation programme; Environment, Security and Search and Rescue Transformation programme; as well as Capacity Building and Promotional Initiatives which entail growing indigenous tonnage, ship building and human capacity.
On capacity building, the DG affirmed his commitment to providing sea time training to cadets of the Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme and the judicial application of the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund (CVFF) to assist local operators to re-fleet and increase the nation’s tonnage
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