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Determined to sustain regional leadership and competitiveness, the Acting managing director of the Nigeria Ports Authority, Mohanned Bello-Koko, recently commissioned a -state-of-the-art- ultra-modern e-Documents management Records Center at its Marina Headquarter, Lagos.
Speaking at the unveiling ceremony
Bello Koko described the venture as a testament to the Management’s relentless efforts aimed at comprehensively improving the Authority’s position at developing seamless customer-based services and operations.
Bello-Koko maintained that “it would provide NPA with the Strategic edge to sustain competitiveness in the sub-region by giving priority to documents safety through automation and digitisation.
He stated that in adherence to the Authority’s plan to deploy a 360-degree Document Management solution, management aspires to migrate from physical archiving to digitisation, up to workflow via Electronic Documents Management Solution (EDMS) with strategies to localise same at Port locations as functional retention centres
Present at the commissioning ceremony were Mohammed Bello Acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, the Executive Director, Marine and Operations, Hon. Onari Brown, General Manager, Administration, Engr. Sylvester Ajibola and the General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, Olaseni Alakija.
Presently, the Authority has two other functional retention centres in Apapa and Port Harcourt to serve the Lagos and Eastern ports respectively. This is in addition to another record centre undergoing automation located along the Apapa port area.
The NPA Acting Managing Director added that “the speed and seamless nature of the EDMS in records storage and processing has a bearing on the organization’s desire in achieving customer satisfaction and excellence whilst promoting the Ease of doing business.”
”In fact, this event is very much in synchronization with our drive towards attaining compliance status of the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO)”, he said
Bello -Koko stated that
the ISO frameworks for records Management, positions organisations like the NPA to reap the benefits of enhanced records Management.
He said this ” includes meeting legal obligations for accurate storage and retrievals” adding that the documents Management Solutions would institute a clear regime of improved accountability and transparency in addition to strengthening our auditing system and training process to world-class standards.
He disclosed that” the Documents solution centre which is of the American model, will not only serve as a source for information storage and retrieval but as a reservoir of data of enduring values.”
L-R: General Manager, Engineering, NPA, Rufai Mohammed, Executive Director, Marine and Operations, Hon. Onari Brown, Acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko, Divisional Head, Sales and Business Development, Adeyinka Shonekan, GM Admin., Engr. Sylvester Ajibola, GM Corporate & Strategic Communications, Olaseni Alakija, and the GM ICT, Engr. Mrs Anthonia Ohagwa during the flag-off of NPA state of the document management solution facility located at the NPA Corporate Headquarters, Marina, Lagos.
Bello Koko further expressed confidence at the realization of the Authority’s vision of deploying a single window to access records across all Port locations.
While the Documents solution Centre is expected to serve as an antidote to vandalism, theft and arson, the Acting Managing Director in his closing remarks, enjoined all staff of the Authority to take ownership.
