How ex-NIMASA boss paid me for job undone – Witness

lagos—A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of a former Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi and six others, Uche Obilor, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos how his three companies were paid N905.8million, by  NIMASA under Akpobolokemi , for a contract he did not execute.

 

Obilor, Managing Director of Ace Prosthesis Limited, Seabulk Offshore Limited and Southern Offshore Limited told the court that the money was paid into the companies’ two bank accounts though he did not bid for any contract for NIMASA nor executed any.

NIMASA, Maritime Academy bicker over N18bn remittance

The Federal Government may soon commence the audit of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN), Oron, Akwa Ibom State as both parastatals are now at loggerheads over N18 billion statutory remittance.  

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This is as the Transport Ministry has dismissed the rumoured plan to sack MAN Oron’s Rector/Chief Executive, Joshua Okpo. 

According to the Act establishing it, MAN, Oron is entitled to 5 per cent of NIMASA’s total earnings as its statutory allocation and the money ought to be released quarterly with occasional intervention funds also given to the school, being a wholly government-owned specialised maritime institution. 

But while NIMASA claimed N18 billion has been given to the school from 2009 to date, the Academy is insisting that the money was not given directly to it to run its affairs as it should.