NIMASA boss, Peterside calls for National Maritime Policy

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*Dr. Dakuku Peterside, DG-NIMASA

(Nigeria) Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has called for the implementation of a National Maritime Policy in Nigeria.
He also said implementing the policy will serve as a catalyst for the actualisation of the objectives of Africa’s Integrated Maritime Strategy, AIMS, come 2050.
In a statement by the Isichei Osamgbi, Head, Corporate Communications of NIMASA, Peterside while declaring open the meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Implementation of Africa’s Integrated Maritime Strategy (AIMS) 2050, held in Lagos, said that a maritime policy for Nigeria will provide a platform to implement the framework for the protection and sustainable exploitation of Africa’s Maritime Domain, AMD.
Peterside who was represented at the meeting by the Agency’s Executive Director, Operations, Engr. Rotimi Fashakin urged the committee to take cognisance of the current maritime security architecture in Nigeria that had been structured in line with international best standards and practices.
According to him, “To realise the dream of a blue economy, strategies must be put in place while security and capacity building amongst other initiatives must play a key role to unlocking the opportunities that abound in the blue economy.
“When you talk about the security issues, you talk about the actual and the perceived and in the real sense of business, perception matters a lot. The Gulf of Guinea is being perceived as not being quite safe because of few attempts we have in the GoG, but I can assure you that the Nigerian Navy and NIMASA are working hand in hand to secure the Gulf of Guinea,” he stated.
He also applauded the Committee for involving Shipowners in the AIMS 2050 implementation process,  noting that the blue economy cannot be realised without them as they are the major assets owners.
Earlier in her remarks, Chairman of the Committee, Hajia Amina Yusuf disclosed that the AIMS Strategy was developed as a response to the high volume of illegal activities that have been in occurrence in Africa’s Maritime Domain, AMD, amounting to huge losses in revenue and lives amongst other issues militating against the development of the AMD.
The Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Implementation of the African Integrated Maritime Strategy, AIMS 2050 came about as the outcome of the meeting of the African Union on AIMS 2050 which took place in Addis Ababa on July 24 and 25, 2015.
The Inter-Ministerial Committee constitutes of 11 members, drawn from NIMASA, Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC and National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, amongst others, all with the sole aim of articulating positions towards the enhancement of AIMS 2050 and ECOWAS Integrated Maritime Strategy.

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