N’Assembly Angry with NIMASA, Orders Team Out of Public Hearing
Members of the Joint National Assembly Committee on Local Content, Petroleum Downstream and Legislative Compliance, were Tuesday angry with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) over the failure of the Director-General, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, to honour their invitation.
To display this, the Committee ordered representatives of the agency out of a public hearing in the National Assembly.
The panel did not hide its anger warning that it will sanction the DG if he fails to attend in person during the next meeting.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Local Contents, Senator Teslim Folarin, expressed dismay that Dakuku has continued to shun the invitation for too long, adding that this was even with all the reminders sent to him.
The leader of the NIMASA team was not allowed to introduce himself by the Joint Committee.
Folarin was quoted saying, “I spoke with Peterside about this event. I called him and asked him to pick a date and he picked today (Tuesday).
“This is an investigative hearing which supersedes any other engagement. We won’t sit here and be wasting our time. We will give him one more chance, just one chance. If he failed to honour the next invitation, we know what to do.”
Similarly, Chairman of the House Committee on Local Content, Hon Legor Idagbo was also angry.
He was quoted saying, “We cannot continue like this as a country. We sit down at the comfort of our offices and live large. We copy what happens in other countries yet we failed to do what they do there. We fail to respect constituted authority.
“You people (NIMASA) should be ashamed of yourself. How do we move forward as a country if we continue like this? What engagement is more important than this type of investigative hearing? This type of attitude is unacceptable”.
The Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, did not also honouor the invitation, a development that also angered the House.
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