Maritime Refutal: N800m Security Vote, NIWA Never Queried By maritimemag April 10, 2018 ShareTweet 0 The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has denied media report that the Senate Committee on Marine Transport queried it over a N800 million security vote when it appeared before the Senate recently to defend its 2018 budget proposal. In a release by its General Manager Corporate Affairs of NIWA, Mr Tayo Fadile, explained,that, throughout its budget defence, there was no item that captured the issue of security as said in the publication. According to the statement, “The distinguished Senators of the Marine Transport Committee in the Senate of the National Assembly, were referring to the Council for Regulation of Freight Forwarding of Nigeria (CRFFN) and not National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) as erroneously reported.” “The truth in respect of the story can be confirmed from the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, Senator Sani Yerima and the video tape of the proceedings can also be made available by the Clerk of the committee of Marine Transport of the Senate”. “As a matter of fact, NIWA was the first agency to be attended to by the distinguished senators, while the CRFFN was the last agency that the committee invited, secondly in the entire budget defence of NIWA, there was no single item that captured the issue of security and the acting Managing Director of NIWA did not make any comment regarding the security issue as reported by the Newspapers since NIWA did not ask for any security vote in the 2018 budget proposal” the statement added. The general public was called upon to disregard the earlier publications stressing that, it was not also true, that, 2017 was the first time NIWA will get approval from the National Assembly since NIWA was established in 1987 and had been securing approval from the National Assembly since its inception as an Authority. [penci_review] © 2018, maritimemag. All rights reserved.
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