Reps Advises FG On Ports Urgent Reconstruction

House of Representatives Committee on Ports and Harbours has called on the Federal Government to urgently reconstruct ports in the country.

The Chairman of the committee, Nnolim Nnaji, gave the commendations recently, to mark the end of a three-day oversight visit to the agency, stressing that, the committee had witnessed the level of decay at the ports, and should agree with the management of NPA on the need to urgently reconstruct Tincan Island and comprehensively rehabilitate Apapa, Rivers, Warri, Onne and Calabar Port Complexes respectively.

He said, the management of the NPA had done well in the area of unprecedented revenue generation and remittance to the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the federation and in the area of infrastructure and equipment renewal, adding that, the 100 per cent physical examination of cargo negated the objectives of trade facilitation and ease of doing business.

He assured, the efforts of the current leadership of Nigerian Customs, and the necessary automation of cargo examination through the use of scanners.