CACOL makes shocking revelations on corruption against NPA, calls for investigations
In a release issued to DAILY POST by CACOL and signed by Adegboyega Otunuga, the anti-corruption organization’s Coordinator, Media, and Publications on behalf of its Executive Chairman, Debo Adeniran, recalled that the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, started operations in April 1955 following the implementation of the Ports Act of 1954.
It further recalled that “By 1963 the firm had grown successfully, it was operating a cargo ship from Lagos to Port Harcourt and also began dredging the Bonny terminal for oil operations.” It said that this and many other acts of impropriety “have made the NPA one of the most corrupt agencies in Nigeria, latest of which is an internal memo of the Nigerian Ports Authority dated January 24, 2020, an online news medium, SaharaReporters, showing how the management of the agency had been siphoning public funds.
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