House committee commends NPA management for outstanding performance

The House of Representatives Committee on Ports and Harbours has commended the Mohammed Bello Koko-led management and staff of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) for delivering exceptional results despite impediments outside of its control.

Speaking on Friday during the press conference to conclude the 3-day oversight visit of the Committee to the NPA, the Chairman of the Committee, Rt. Honourable Nnolim Nnaji, said, “The management and staff of the NPA have done very well in the area of unprecedented revenue generation and remittance to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) of the federation and in the area of infrastructure and equipment renewal.”

Speaking further, the Chairman noted that “we have seen the level of decay at the ports, and we agree with the management of the NPA on the need to urgently reconstruct Tin-Can Island and comprehensively rehabilitate Apapa, Rivers, Warri, Onne, and Calabar Port Complexes, respectively.

“We have also noted that the insistence by Nigerian Customs on 100 per cent physical examination of cargo negates the objectives of trade facilitation and ease of doing business, even though we must acknowledge the efforts of the current leadership of the Nigerian Customs Service, and we will give legislative support where necessary for the automation of cargo examination through the use of scanners.

“On the way to Lekki Deep Seaport, the Committee got firsthand experience of the pressing need for the government to ramp up efforts at deploying multimodality in the evacuation of cargo from the ports to eliminate the delays associated with overconcentration on the roads.”

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