The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr Dayo Mobereola has asserted that adopting the Public Private Partnership, PPP, model is essential for the infrastructural development of Nigeria’s maritime sector.
The Director General, who made this statement while hosting Dr. Jobson Oseodion Ewalefoh, the Director General of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission,ICRC, emphasized the importance of the Commission’s increased involvement in attracting private investors to develop infrastructural capacity in Nigeria’s maritime sector.M
Mobereola said; “We appreciate the Management of the ICRC for being responsive. However, you know that the maritime sector is capital intensive and government funds cannot solely put in place the required infrastructure. We need the ICRC to develop PPP based business models that will be attractive to the private sector both from within and outside the country. There is the need to streamline processes by the use of technology, as we will continue to count on the support of ICRC to help drive the Agency’s PPP projects for effective and efficient service delivery to our stakeholders”.
