Managing Director, Mohammed Bello-Koko, spoke at the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria Breakfast Meeting.
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He restated that his administration is committed to emplacing and bequeathing to the nation a transparent and accountable management of the NPA now and in the years ahead.
The development was revealed in a statement issued by the Management of the NPA and made available on Friday.
The NPA MD sent the message via his social media handle hours after their inauguration by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Mohammed Bello Koko, said this on the arrival of the first ship.
Speaking when he received the Head of Maritime Law and Policy of the World Maritime University Professor Max Mejia and his team who visited the NPA corporate headquarters in Marina on Thursday 21st April 2022, Bello Koko said
Bello-Koko was on May 6, 2021 appointed the acting Managing Director of the NPA when Hadiza Bala Usman stepped aside.
However, the 11-member committee set up by the ministry of transportation to probe the alleged fraud decided to shift its attention to allegations of insubordination to Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister.
Rev. Jonathan Nicole, President of SALS gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos
President Muhammadu Buhari gave the approval on Tuesday.
NPA General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, Ibrahim Nasiru, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday
Appearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Ports and Harbours, Koko cut the image of a maritime Czar, displaying deeper insight into the workings of ports regulation, management and administration in the global maritime matrix.
“What it simply means is that if they were built to handle 500,000 Twenty Foot Equivalent Units, for instance, probably they are now handling about 700, 000 TEUs,” he told newsmen on Sunday in Lagos.
Bello-Koko confirmed the appointment of the new port managers in a statement he issued on Friday in Lagos.
The partnership is also designed to facilitate legitimate movement of persons and goods at all seaports in the country.
The Chairman of the committee, Rep. Leke Abejide (SDC-Kogi), said the process should be limited to four offices and points
The acting Managing Director of NPA, Mr Mohammed Bello-Koko in a statement in Lagos on Friday added that the guidelines must be complied by all operators effective Sept. 1.
The team, made up of officers of ICPC, NSC, NPA and the Directorate of State Services (DSS), was charged with the primary duty of ensuring that standard procedures were followed in carrying out transactions at the ports.