ITS PROMOTION GALORE AT NIMASA – AS OVER 230 STAFF ARE PROMOTED TO THE NEXT LEVELS BY JERRY AGUIGBO

The Dakuku Peterside led management at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has taken a radical departure from other past managements promoting its staff as at when due these past three (3) years.

According to our correspondence, sources at NIMASA revealed that it used to be a story for the gods for one to get promoted from one grade level to another to the next level but now under Dakuku, it is no longer as herculean as it was.

NIMASA has promoted over 230 staff members, leading the ranks of promoted staff is Mr. Dikko Bala, the Nigerian alternate permanent representative at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Bala was promoted from the rank of Deputy Director to Director. Also elevated to the position of Director in the Agency, is the Deputy Director, Maritime Labour Services, Mrs. Rita Uruakpa.

Other beneficiaries of the promotion exercise were Mr Kazir Musa, who was promoted to Deputy Director, and 18 officers, who were elevated to Assistant Directors. Two hundred and thirty six other staff across all grade levels also benefited from the exercise.

The promotions were ratified at a meeting of the Governing Board of the Agency held in Lagos under the chairmanship of Major General Jonathan India Garba (rtd). The Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, while congratulating the promoted members of staff and charged them to continue to be committed to the Agency’s vision of taking the Nigerian maritime sector to an enviable height.

Stating that the Agency’s determination to continue to motivate its workforce remains unwavering. According to Dakuku, this was a rigorous but fair process, and in this wise, I will like to congratulate the newly promoted staff of the Agency and to say to them that the reward for hard work is more work.

Nigeria’s Alternate Permanent Representative to the IMO Mr. Dikko Bala

Assuring the entire NIMASA workforce that Management will continue to ensure that staff are promoted as and when due so that they can remain motivated to give their best in the Agency’s drive to reposition the maritime industry.”

In their comments, the promoted staff said before now, staff of the Agency stayed very long on one grade level without promotion, but that story changed with the coming of the Dakuku-led Management.

According to one of the promoted officers, who craved anonymity, “More than ever, NIMASA staff have remained committed to the Agency’s course, knowing full well that every hard work is rewarded by the Agency’s Management. This promotion exercise has clearly shown that the Dr. Dakuku Peterside-led Management is determined to actualise its promise to take the Nigerian maritime sector to the next level by encouraging professionalism.” This promotion exercise is the third under the Dakuku management since assuming office about three years ago.