The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has boasted about his Management’s determination to make the Agency a world class high performance organization.
Dr. Peterside, who spoke during the Management Performance Review (MPR) of the Agency in Lagos, said that the Agency’s repositioning initiative is all encompassing and that when concluded, would be beneficial to the entire maritime sector.
The NIMASA boss said that the MPR is an avenue to assess the progress being made by the Agency vis-a-vis its reform, restructuring and repositioning drive to ensure that the Agency’s mandate is achieved.
“There is no organization that can grow without innovation and the MPR affords us a rare opportunity to assess our journey thus far. It is a rare privilege to match set goals with results…to assess ourselves on how far we have gone in this journey.
“When I joined you in NIMASA we sat down and agreed to build a world class high performance organization. In subscribing to that, we set out to craft a Medium Term Strategic plan which would be our roadmap. We have already started the critical elements of the things we agreed that are necessary to build a world class maritime organization. One is the automation of our processes and to fast track this, we set up a special taskforce. It is our vision that by October, NIMASA would be fully automated.”
Peterside noted that the dream of the Agency is to be recognized as the foremost maritime regulatory Agency in Africa that is the pride of the continent, adding that the Agency has the duty to facilitate maritime business and not to stifle it.
“The bigger picture is to build a world class, high performance organization that would satisfy the interest and yearnings of our clients as well as serve the interest of the country that set us up. We are indeed facilitators of maritime business; therefore we will not stifle it.”
The MPR session, which is still ongoing is expected to review the achievements of the Agency’s targets for the half year ended June 30, 2016 and map out strategies for meeting the set targets as outlined in its work plan for the period in review. [myad]
