One of his known mantra is making Nigeria the future maritime destination for Africa. And he has shown this by the hyperactive way he has ran things at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) headquarters, since he came in as Director-General barely a year ago.
As the Director General of NIMASA, Barrister Temisan Omatseye has shown that a lot could be achieved in one year. Within that one year, he has tried to reposition the face of the Nigerian shipping industry. By the time he leaves office, indigenous ship owners by virtue of the Cabotage Act, which NIMASA is promoting, would have been better placed to stand up against their foreign oppressors, and against oil companies colluding with the foreign shipping companies.
Omatseye has been very vocal about Nigerian shipping companies lifting locally generated cargo, especially oil. He has laid strategies to actualize this.
In this interview, Mr Omatseye, who is our chief executive of the week, spoke extensively about the challenges of policing the Nigerian waters and his one-year in office, his efforts so far in the area of human capacity management, the banana peels at NIMASA, among others.
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