Do not forget that the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency is a Maritime regulatory body, therefore, the agency has the full responsibility of regulating the safety of shipping business in Nigeria particularly, when it comes to ship construction and also the navigation of ships in Nigeria. We all know that disaster sometimes happened in an organization. Such disasters could be fire incident, and it could be any kind of disaster.
But in this case, it is talking about the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency providing search and rescue services. Meaning that there are possibilities, whereby, ships can sink and perhaps people can be through into the water. Therefore, another function of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency is in the area of making sure that, it make available the possibility of searching and reaching in the event of a disaster.
When talking about shipping business, many things are involved. The operators in the Maritime sector sailed with ships, and these ships in another words, are called vessels. Therefore, it is the function of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency to make sure that, it make provision to direct these vessels and as well, ensures compliance with security measures such that will protect these vessels.
This is another function of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, and is going to be the last I will be discussing in this article. The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency also saddled with the responsibility of developing policies and programmes that are related to shipping business.
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency must also make sure that, it implement these policies and programmes. The purpose is to help in facilitating the growth and development of local capacity in ownership, as well as in manning and construction of ships including other maritime infrastructure and facilities.
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Click to download ii. Merchant Shipping Act. Click to download iii. The Agency is structured into 3 three Directorates. Each directorate is under the leadership an Executive Director.
Each Directorate has two or more Departments, headed by a Director. About Us. The agency was established primarily for the administration of maritime safety seafarers standards and security, shipping regulation, promotion of commercial shipping and cabotage activities, pollution prevention and control in the marine environment.
Then, it was under the auspices of the federal ministry of transport. NIMASA mandate is to ensure orderly development, protection and manpower training in the shipping industry as well as to monitor marine pollution and spillage in the Nigeria waterways amongst others. There was also a video i watched online on how a former Director General of the same agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi was re-arrested over alleged fraud running into billions of naira at the Federal High Court at Ikoyi when he was coming out from another case.
This really tells of how corruption as gone deep into government agencies in the country.
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