National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA); Prince Olayiwola Shittu has said that majority of the staff at the Ministry of Transportation are inexperienced and are lacking in what it takes to move the transport sector forward.
Shittu who was speaking at a public event in Lagos last week alleged that the oldest staff in the ministry is less than 10 years in service and they do not have a grasp of the ministry, especially as regards maritime.
Shittu charged the Minister of transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi to urgently gather professionals in the private sector, as well as retired officials of the transport ministry who had put in long years of service, with the aim of charting a road map for the ministry.
He noted that several committees were set up during the last administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, with recommendations that were never looked into or implemented.
The ANLCA President charged Amaechi to set up a committee to harmonise the recommendation of the committees and come up with a summary that the ministry can implement.
‘’I always believe that when you get to a new place, you need to look back and see what has been done before your arrival, before you start chatting a road map’’
‘’The transport ministry today has the highest number of committees set up within three years more than committees set up in other ministries, what has happened to reports of those committees?
‘’I would expect the minister to look into the private sector and gather egg heads as well as people who have made names in the ministry, set up a committee to look at all the past committee reports and give a summary without being affected by the usual civil service bureaucracy’
‘’The whole of the ministry today, the oldest staff is not up to ten years, what experience are they going to bring forward for us in charting a new course?, Shittu stated.
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