The Shipowners Association of Nigeria has disagreed with the Maritime Administration and Safety Agency’s request for its merger with the Nigerian Indigenous Shipowners Association as a prerequisite over the disbursement of the $350m and N16bn Cabotage Vessels Financing Fund.
The PUNCH“If a meeting was held, SOAN was not invited and the group was not part of the agenda. So, the people saying that should come together, are they the lawmakers or the national assembly? There is a cabotage law. So, because you held a meeting, the law should not stand. Nobody has the authority to bring his own conditions for the disbursement of the CVFF. There is an act. That is the law, whether you held a meeting or party doesn’t mean that you will drive without a driver.
He said that coming together was a wish and not part of the requirements for the disbursement of the fund. “So, if they call us for a meeting and they wish that people should join together that is a wish but the act doesn’t say so. The act does not say, for instance, all farmers that want to benefit from the CBN intervention must be a member of the rice farmers group.”
Meanwhile, a member of NISA, Taiwo Akinpelumi, in a telephone conversation with our correspondent in Lagos, said, “Yes, we met with the NIMASA DG. Nobody said anybody should merge with anybody. What was said was that we should speak with one voice, that members of NISA should come together and speak as one. That we should present one front, that he would love a situation whereby there would be no SOAN or NISA, because a shipowner is a shipowner anywhere. He didn’t say we should merge with SOAN.
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