The Home of Representatives Committee on Maritime Security, Schooling and Administration, says it might examine all contractors that deserted tasks on the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, Akwa Ibom State.
It additionally resolved to summon the management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Security Company over failure to remit the statutory 5% allocation to the Academy for over a yr now.
This got here following a presentation by the Rector of the Academy, Commodore Duja Emmanuel Effedua (retd) earlier than the committee on oversight operate to the Academy on Thursday.
Talking in the course of the interactive session, the chairman of the committee, Khadijah Bukar Abba Ibrahi, mentioned all contractors who deserted tasks from the inception of the establishment could be investigated and made to account for each Kobo collected to function a deterrent to others.
Ibrahim, who was represented by the Vice chairman of the committee, Hon Uduak Ududoh, PDP, Akwa Ibom, mentioned that the committee would write to the establishment on getting again to Abuja, including that the apply of abandonment of tasks after taxpayers’ cash had been paid should not be allowed to proceed.
“We’ll look again, to analyze the tasks even from the inception of the varsity and so, after we get again to Abuja, we are going to meet as a committee and mandate the clerk to the establishment as a result of we can not proceed this manner.
“They (contractors ) are Nigerians, and if they’ve the chance, they may embezzle the cash and abandon the tasks. So, after we get again, we are going to take a look at these items, it’s Nigeria cash that’s concerned,” he mentioned.
The chairman additionally mandated the Rector to show these employees behind the leakages he talked about in his presentation, including that if they don’t seem to be uncovered and applicable motion taken in opposition to them, it might not function a deterrent to others.
The committee expressed unhappiness that the statutory 5% allocation from NIMASA has not been paid for upward of 1 yr and due to this fact resolved to summon the company’s management earlier than it.
The Rector had in his presentation earlier than the committee, lamented the state of infrastructural decay within the academy, including that the “state of affairs was such that the the Worldwide Maritime Group threatened to delist Nigeria as a spot the place Maritime college students ought to be skilled”.
He added that this occurred as a result of individuals who had the chance of operating the affairs of the establishment had been chasing mundane issues.
