5th March, 2020
PRESS RELEASE:
MURIC
CONGRATULATES NEW NIMASA BOSS, BASHIR JAMOH
President
Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Bashir Jamoh as the Director-General
of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). He will
replace Dakuku
Peterside who has been the head of the maritime agency since 10th
March 2016 and whose tenure ends on 10th March 2020.
Meanwhile the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has
congratulated the new Director-General, Dr. Bashir Jamoh. According to MURIC,
Jamoh’s appointment is timely, appropriate and well-deserved. The organisation’s
comments were contained in a press statement issued on Thursday 5th
March, 2020 by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The group said, “The appointment of Dr.
Bashir Jamoh as the new Director-General of NIMASA is timely, appropriate and
well-deserved. It is reward for hard work and dedication to duty. With an
intimidating curriculum vitae and an inexhaustible work experience both within
and outside NIMASA, Jamoh has the wherewithal to take the maritime agency to
the next level.
“A man
who is the current Executive Director (Admin and Finance) in the same NIMASA and
the current
president of the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria
(CIoTA) cannot
be described as unsuitable by any standard for the position of director general
of Nigeria’s maritime agency.
“But there are more overwhelming
facts to prove that Jamoh knows his onions and President Buhari has put the
right peg in the right hole. He had served with the Nigerian Maritime Authority
(NMA) from 1994 to 2003. His stint in NIMASA began in 2003 when he joined the
agency as an assistant chief commercial officer, eastern and central zones.
“He rose through the system with different spells
in the protocol and transport units, assistant director (statistics and research),
etc. Jamoh’s selling point was his establishment, equipment and management of NIMASA’s ultra-modern training centre with capacity to accommodate 200
participants at a time. He successfully planned, managed and appraised capacity
development of the largest maritime organisation for about a decade. He also elevated
the agency’s training to world-class standard.
“Bashir
Jamoh holds a
master’s degree in management from Korea Maritime and Ocean University, a
post-graduate diploma in management sciences from Bayero University, Kano and a
diploma in accounting from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He capped the edifice
with a doctorate degree in Logistics and Transport Management. An erudite scholar, he is the author of the book, Harnessing Nigeria’s
Maritime Assets: Past, Present and Future.
“As an astute administrator and mentor, he has
organised and facilitated leadership training and manpower development
programmes in several countries including the United Kingdom, the United
States, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Brazil, Malaysia and Sweden.
“Dr. Bashir Jamoh’s personal website
(www.bashirjamoh.com) reveals that the incoming Director General of NIMASA is a
member and fellow of several prestigious national and international
professional bodies. Some of these are: Fellow, Institute for Service
Excellence and Good Governance; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Administration
of Nigeria; Fellow, Institute of Business Development; Fellow, Academy of
Entrepreneurial Studies; Fellow, Institute of Public Diplomacy and Management;
Fellow, Institute of Information Management; Member, Chartered Institute of
Personnel Management; Member, Institute of Maritime Economist (Canada); Member,
Institute of Logistics, London; Member, Nigerian Institute of International
Affairs & Member, National Speakers Association and Global Speakers Federation
(USA).
“Jamoh is a recipient of numerous
awards among which are Distinguished Merit Award for exemplary leadership
achievements in Maritime Education in Nigeria from the Institute of Leadership
and Development for the Public Good, Kansas, USA and merit award from the
Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria.
“MURIC commends President Buhari for manifesting visionary leadership
in his choice of Bashir Jamoh for the position of Director General of NIMASA.
We are waiting for wailers and their characteristically divisive outcry against
every appointment made by this administration. It is either nepotism, Islamisation
or Fulanisation. But they did not see Afeniferisation when Dr. Folashade
Yemi-Esan was appointed on Monday, 2nd March, 2020 as the new Head
of Service (HOS). Yemi-Esan succeeded Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, another
Christian and Southerner. But the Muslims have not cried foul. Neither have the
Northerners screamed blue murder.
There is indubitable evidence
that balance has been maintained in the choice of Bashir Jamoh. The outgoing
director general, Dr. Dakuku Adolphus Peterside, is a Christian and a Southerner
while his successor, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, is a Muslim and a Northerner.
Our findings reveal that Southerners had even dominated the leadership
of NIMASA over the years. Dr. Bassey U. Ekong was the founding director general
in 1988. The agency has had twelve (12) director generals since inception and
only two of these have been Northerners (Alhaji Munir Jaafar and Buba Galadima
1996 – 1998) while only three among the twelve have been Muslims. The rest have
been Muslims.
For the records, other
director generals of the agency in chronological order were John Egesi, George
Mbanefo Eneh, 1999, Architect Ferdinand Agu 2000 – 2005, Engineer Festus Ugwu,
Mrs. Mfon Usoro, Dr. Shamsudeen Adegboyega Dosunmu, 2007, Temisan Omatseye,
Zaikede Patrick Akpobolokemi 2010 – 2015 and Dr. Dakuku Peterside (2016 – 2020).
The number of Muslims who have headed NIMASA is therefore three (3) only while nine
Christians have headed the agency. This data knocks the bottom off the buckets
of those who have been claiming that Christians are marginalized in Nigeria.
They have only been shedding crocodile tears, misleading Nigerians and the
international community.
In conclusion, MURIC heartily
congratulates the 13th director general of NIMASA and wishes him a
successful tenure. We also commend President Buhari for picking the most
suitable candidate for the job.
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
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