Corruption Hindering Our Service Delivery, Says Shippers’ Council

Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Mr Emmanual Jime, has said the Council will deliver more quality services when corruption is tackled.

Jime spoke yesterday when the Head of the Technical Unit on Governance & Anti- Corruption Reforms (TUGAR), Joan Onwulere, led her team to visit him in Abuja.

According to him, corruption, among other challenges, is limiting the progress of  maritime sector and this needed to be tackled.

While commending the TUGAR team for the good job there were doing, Jime pledged the continued support of the NSC to the team to measure sanity of the maritime industry.

“Let us also be aware that there is still several ways to go, there is a lot of work left to be done.

“What we do at the NSC,  because of the important role we play of regulating the commercial sector of the maritime domain,  there is no way we will deliver on quality services if those services are mitigated by the incidences of corruption.

“We are together in this and it is a battle that I believe is winnable, but we have to carry on with this work to its logical ends.

“I want to thank you for coming and to assure you even more that whatever is needed as far as support from the shippers council is concerned.

“By way of funding, by way of provision of equipment to the best of our ability that we have been able to do till now, we can only continue to do and do even more,” Jime said.