The Committee, chaired by Michael Etaba, who represents Obubra/Etung Federal Constituency in Cross River State, is investigating NIMASA over a petition submitted by the Abade-Toru Manga Community Development Initiative on December 4, 2023.
The petition claimed that the agency failed to establish educational and skills acquisition projects in coastal communities as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility.
The group also alleged that NIMASA had expressed commitment in line with the recommendations at the Global Maritime Security Conference 2019, to introduce educational, entrepreneurship training, and skills acquisition programs in the areas of fishing, clearing and forwarding, and legal bunkering, for people in the coastal communities.
However, rather than living up to its commitment, Bashir Jamoh, who then held sway at NIMASA as the Director-General, decided to build a Maritime Skill Acquisition Centre and Twin Lecture Theatre in Kaduna State, where he hails from.
The Committee has urged Mobereola to appear in person to explain why NIMASA failed to replicate the skills acquisition centres in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers where it operates.
The Committee warned that failure to appear would result in directing the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest and bring him before the panel.
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