Former NAGAFF President Urges Transportation Minister To Create Road Map For Maritime Industry

The outgoing President of National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF); Chief Eugene Nweke, has urged the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, to create a road map for the maritime industry.
Nweke, made the plea in an interview in Lagos on Friday.
He said that the minister should also critically look at uncompleted projects in the industry.
“The minster should guide us in the right direction. He should look at what governments have done in the past and find out whether they got it right,’’ the freight forwarder said.
He said that the minister should also look at how many maritime conventions Nigeria had signed and how many it had domesticated.
Nweke said that by now, every maritime nation should be working toward what he described as “African Maritime Development Strategy’’.
“We are failing in policing our waters and there should be efforts to revamp the fishing trawlers’ business.
“It is not right that we are allowing foreigners to fish in our waters and make huge monies,’’ NAN quotes the freight forwarder as saying.
He said that the nation’s maritime policies should also be properly articulated so that “we would not be a laughing stock in the league of maritime nations’’.