The new Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Dr. George Moghalu, has promised to continue all ongoing viable and justifiable projects of the agency as long they conform to due process and the Act establishing NIWA.
Moghalu made this known at NIWA headquarters in Lokoja while delivering his speech shortly after he assumed office as the substantive head of the agency.
He pointed out that the overall policy objectives of NIWA were to transform the inland waterways to make them not just economically, viable but also to provide a safe, reliable and alternate transport system to ease the problem of transportation and movement of goods across the country.
This, he stated, makes the agency an important and strategic one adding that, “This places on us a huge responsibility from which so much is expected.”
“Inland waterways system is a critical component of the national freight system, particularly for the movement of bulk commodities.
“In view of the growing transportation needs particularly in moving bulk commodities, our country dearly needs diversification and development of its critical infrastructures in the area of Waterways transportation,” he said.