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INLAND WATERWAYS OF DEATH: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The matter is grim! Every patriot is deeply worried. Whether in Lagos, Yauri, Sokoto, Shiroro, Kebbi or the Niger Delta waters, the increasing loss of lives on the nation’s inland waterways is frightening and can no longer be tolerated. Who actually stands to blame? Who is contributing what to perpetrate what ought to be an exception rather than the rule? Is the carnage persisting because waterway users stubbornly neglect safety measures the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has been championing for years? What is the level of government empowerment to NIWA to address this matter? Is government allocation sufficient to frontally address such a gargantuan problem? IZUCHUKWU OZOEMENA examines the issue following fresh appeals by the inland waterways regulator recently for all hands to be on deck to check what is becoming a national embarrassment.
August 12 – 14, 2014, the National Inand Waterways Auhority (NIWA) hosted her first-ever International Conference and Exhibition (ICE) in Lagos. Tagged NIWA ICE, it was part of continuing efforts to draw global attention to Nigeria’s huge waterway potentials and efforts the agency was making to harness them not only for the benefit of inland waterway users in-country but stakeholders from contiguous nations and even beyond.
From all indications, the theme of the conference, “Modernizing Inland Waterways Infrastructure and Vessels for Safe and Sustainable Inland Waterways Transportation”remains as relevant and apt, eight years after. This is because it falls in line with the imperatives of the moment and present concerns about increasing safety lapses on the waterways and loss of lives being experienced.
The NIWA ICE focused on safety while vigorously projecting the agency’s strategies to compel boat operators and passengers alike to give topmost priority to safe sail on the inland waterways.
FROM THE BEGINNING
Among other responsibilities, the NIWA Act CAP N47, 2004 of January 1, 1996 which established the agency, vested in it the task to “provide regulations for inland waterway navigation.” Unambiguously spelt out in this task is safety on the inland waterways. To what extent has the agency gone to satisfy public expectations in this regard? What role is stakeholders’ attitude of non-compliance to safety rules playing in making it impossible for NIWA to make substantial strides in ensuring safety on the inland waterways? Does NIWA really stand to blame for continuing loss of lives on the waterways when boat passengers, boat drivers and others blatantly flout safety regulations while plying the inland waters?
The present leadership of NIWA under Dr George Moghalu has been facing scathing criticism for what appears an inability to tame the scourge of numerous boat mishaps. This is despite all efforts by the agency to enforce extant safety regulatory measures. However, some stakeholders say that considering the very wide area whose inland waterways it is overseeing, the agency deserves to be adequately empowered to tackle all tasks including incidences of disobedience to safety rules and regulations. For now, the agency lacks what it takes to adequately prevent or preempt some of these deadly occurrences. It can only react to some of them depending on her capability level which reflects the level of empowerment at her disposal.
Shortly after appointment as NIWA Managing Director, Dr George Moghalu undertook a familiarization tour to coastal states and communities to re-assure all and sundry that contrary to negative notions about travelling by water, it remains the fastest, safest and economically-rewarding means of transportation.
At an enlarged media interaction in Lagos early August, Moghalu was at his best when he made efforts to assure stakeholders that much as it may be humanly impossible to achieve absolute perfection, the agency remains committed to ensure an enduring, secure and safer inland waterways. On recurring boat accidents, he commended the media for reporting this at least to increase awareness on the possibility so that operators can caution themselves on the need to comply to safety regulations at all times. However, he blamed a section of the media for not verifying facts before publishing news on the frequency and casualties. He condemned some boat operators and passengers who treat safety matters with levity.
CHALLENGES
Without doubt, the greatest challenge NIWA is yet to overcome is deviant acts that result to avoidable marine accidents. Majority of accidents occur at night. The agency has to devise a far-reaching monitoring and enforcement strategy, night or day, to remain ahead of boat operators who ply the waterways at unholy hours. Strict enforcement of safety precautions, though already in place, is yet to meet expected standards. This is the reason boat accidents still persist even to a frightening proportion being experienced presently.
Jide Okunola, an Apapa-based freight forwarder stated this recently. Okunola who resides in Igbede riverine area of Ojo, told Falcon Watch that most boat drivers who operate along the Badagry-Ojo-Liverpool-Apapa corridor always have a field day because Police patrols take place during the day only. Therefore, he suggested that NIWA must redesign her strategy by engaging local ‘agboros’ and those he described as ‘repented hoodlums’ because “it takes a thief to catch a thief”. According to him, they are already familiar with the terrain and can be very useful in monitoring who is doing what on the waterways especially at night.
These people can be offered incentives to volunteer information because they are on ground more than the Police. Night journeys are common. Nobody checks what happens along the waterways at night”, Okunola regreted. He said that along the stretch, intensive fishing happens in the night; movement of smugglers also take place at night and nobody is available to question those involved. People involved in this act care less about light, wrecks and other obstructions that can cause mishap. Of course, they understand the local geography and can avoid obstacles even in the dark.”
He advised NIWA to realize the need to obtain valid information about what goes on along this stretch through devising a subtle means to identify and befriend some of these night operators so as to have access to needed intelligence on unauthorized night voyages. If this strategy works out on this corridor, he explained, it can be replicated in other areas.
Okunola regretted that all talks about life jackets means nothing to the locals. “In fact, as they rush out to fish at night or scoop sand during the day, life jackets do not matter. For smugglers, the motive is to make it quick. Nothing else is relevant.”
Falcon Watch recalls that at an enlarged stakeholders’ meeting in 2020, Dr Moghalu stated that his cardinal objective was to make water transportation a transport mode of choice. He reiterated this in Lagos recently. “We have tried to provide the needed environment for operators, including training programmes, to expose them to operational standards. Yet, some have chosen the path of desperation and dangerous behavior leading to loss of lives and property.”
MENACE OF WATER HYACINTH
The menace which water hyacinth, the stubborn weed constitutes on the waterways is enormous. This directly impedes navigation for all kinds of vessels. In areas where she has supervisory statutory responsibility, NIWA clears this stubborn weed, Moghalu says.
Following the seasonal embarrassment this weed causes to navigation, NIWA and Lagos State Waterways Authority, LASWA, in 2017, concluded plans to promptly clear it at all times.
At a 2017 joint stakeholders’ meeting with members of the Association of Tourists, Boats and Water Transportation of Nigeria (ATBOWATON) in Lagos, then NIWA Lagos Area Manager, Engr Muazu Sambo admitted that water hyacinth was a critical problem hindering the Agency’s operations. Muazu Sambo who is the current Transportation Minister disclosed that NIWA had acquired equipments to clear it on a permanent basis. “We have acquired equipments to clear water hyacinth; we will deploy them for the purpose,” Sambo said.
INTERVIEW WITH DR GEORGE MOGHALU (in-box)
Q: Frequent boat accidents have become NIWA’s greatest challenge. Does it mean your safety arrangements are not working?
A: We’re doing all what we are expected to do to manage the waterways. But it is sad enough that you find that either by acts of commission or omission, people do not do what they are expected to do. For example, we have placed protocols that vessels don’t move in the night; they don’t move in the early hours of the day. From statistics and reports we receive on accidents that happen, 90% of such accidents happen in the night or early in the morning. What that goes to show is that these vessels don’t have navigational aids. Therefore, they should not move in the night or when it is dark. But people still move in the night. They will avoid the right jetties. At times, they don’t even move from jetties at all; they don’t move at river banks. They move from their vessels, get into the water and expose people to danger. You can’t just leave any of our jetties on your own without being tracked. These jetties are monitored and there are rules that must be obeyed. You cant just get onboard any of our jetties without being fully kitted among which is wearing the right life jacket. Most people don’t even know that these jackets expire. You can’t have an expired life jacket from any of our jetties. You can’t ply from any of our jetties when you are not properly kitted. But to avoid all these, they take people and put them on vessels and expose them to unnecessary and avoidable danger when they are not properly kitted.
Q: People say this is happening because NIWA has not been stringent in punishing offenders by catching and prosecuting them…….
We’re getting them….. We arrested people and tried them. Some people have been convicted. We are still doing that. Even we impound substandard vessels that shouldn’t be on the waterways. We get such vessels; some are destroyed. We keep doing that because every lfe is important to us. We don’t want the waste to continue.
Q: NIWA’s ex-top Manager, Engr Muazu Sambo, is now the Transportation Minister. Do you expect an improved treatment of NIWA matters especially strict enforcement of safety regulations which he championed in the past?
We are always serious and concerned about enforcement of safety standards. We are doing verything to push and actualize them. But don’t forget that much as he was our former staff, he is now the Federal Minister of Transportation and other paratatals are under him. It is not only NIWA that he is overseeing.
Q: The Onitsha River Port was recently concessioned. What is the position of this very large parcel of land and vegetation in the channel directly overlooking the port?
It’s an island; it’s not a bush. We have one or two Chinesecompanies discussing with us on the possibility of developing it.
Q: Still on safety and standards and the need to curb recurring boat mishaps. Any plans on waterway transport codes and standards?
We are putting up transport codes and standards; setting up a task force. Any defaulter we catch we hand over to the Police to prosecute. We are not leaving anything to chance because this is embarrassing. Every life is important to us. The rules area made to be obeyed.
Q: What is the place of technology in all these?
Like you heard me say, boat registration is now done online. We are trying to use technology as much as we can. The next stage is to station cameras to be able to monitor activities on our waterways. So, technology has a key role in all we do.
Q: You brought out some patrol vehicles as well as instituting a task force. What are you doin g to ensure that rules are not only adhered to but operators are abreast of the law?
We are engaging operators. We have created fora where we meet and discuss. A lot of sensitization is going on across the country. Like you said, we bought and distributed patrol vessels .We are empowering and giving all the support to our Police department. We are also setting up task forces that are working across the country to effect protocol when it has to do with boat management.
Q: It appears managing the long stretch of inland waterways across Nigeria is a daunting task for NIWA. Do you support views that it is time the agency is unbundled into three or four zones for easy surveillance and monitoring?
Why unbundle it? We already have too many agencies. We have departments in NIWA that are living up to their responsibilities and expectations in this regard. So, I don’t see why NIWA should be unbundled. I don’t think it is necessary.
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Starzs Group Emphasizes Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility, Urges Government to Strengthen Education Infrastructure.
By Izuchukwu Ozoemena
As part of activities marking its 40th anniversary, Starzs Investments Company Limited (SICL) on Wednesday commissioned a 6,000-litre solar-powered borehole and renovated male and female toilet facilities at Government Secondary School, Ogu, in Ogu-Bolo Local Government Area , Onne, Rivers State.
Commissioning the projects, the company’s Managing Director, Ms Iroghama Ogbeifun, described the intervention as the first of many collaborative initiatives with the school and urged the school management to ensure proper maintenance and sustainability.
”We dedicate this project, which will be by God’s grace, the first of many, in our collaboration with this community and with this school, in honour of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
She also unveiled the commemorative plaque marking the company’s 40th anniversary.
”I also use the opportunity to unveil the plaque that will memorialize us as a business concern, in celebration of our 40th anniversary.-
“Starzs Investments Company Limited Solar Powered Ogu-Bolo Project, installed by Starzs Investments Company Limited. This water facility was installed to support access to clean and sustainable water for the school, transforming lives one boat at a time.”
Community leaders, including Engr. Boma Dasinokuma, as well as the school’s Principal and Vice Principal, pledged to ensure the facilities are properly maintained.
Addressing journalists, Ogbeifun said the intervention reflects Starzs’ commitment to sustainable corporate social responsibility, while stressing that the provision and maintenance of public school infrastructure remain the responsibility of government.
Speaking on the state of infrastructure at the schools visited, the MD said;
”For me, it’s a call for action to the government. It’s as simple as that. And the more we begin to talk about it, the better.
”The government has the core responsibility to ensure that these schools are maintained. Since this school was built in 2018, it has not been maintained or painted by the government. So why did the government build it? You can’t build schools with a plan that private companies will come here and do what you are meant to do.”
She maintained that while companies should continue to support education through corporate social responsibility, government must not abdicate its constitutional responsibilities.
”Yes, we encourage companies to come and do what they can but the core responsibility remains with government. And government must be called to action to live up to their responsibility and not wait for private companies.
”Whatever a private company does should just be an extra. They should be coming here and saying I want to give them what they don’t already have. What government has not already given to them.
”That’s what I’m saying. Let me come and put playground here and not to give you water to be able to flush your toilet. That’s unacceptable as far as I’m concerned.”
She explained that Starzs carefully chose projects that would have long-term impact on communities.
”Starzs Investments Company Limited is celebrating 40 years of existence. We haven’t only just existed, we have also thrived, by God’s grace!
”And in marking such a significant milestone, we have taken it upon ourselves to visit different communities, particularly the schools, to do some CSR projects. And they have ranged from tree planting, environmental maintenance, to more importantly, infrastructure projects.”
Ogbeifun said the lack of clean water and functional sanitation facilities in schools has significant health and hygiene implications for pupils and teachers alike.
”There are many implications of not having running water in a school like this, especially in this days. We have children from different levels of education. From kindergarten to primary, secondary and they don’t have clean, running water. And obviously, we must talk about the health implications of that. We must talk about the sanitary implications of that. And there are also teachers who live here. So, imagine not having access to running water…
”The toilets have not been used in years because there was no water. And one of the biggest problems that they also have is power. So, even if you drill a borehole, the borehole has to move with a pump and that pump has to be powered.
”So, my team came up with the idea of installing a solar-powered borehole. This will be the second kind of project that we as Starzs have executed. The other one was built in a community very close to where our office operates. So, this will be our second solar-powered borehole project.”
Expressing satisfaction with the quality of the work, she said the project had restored functional sanitation facilities to the school and would positively influence pupils’ health and behaviour.
” I’m very, very satisfied with what my team has done especially given the timeline, the time frame that was given to them to execute.
”It’s a fantastic job. We’ve gone around. We’ve seen the solar project. We’ve seen the borehole. We’ve tested it. We’ve visited the toilets that were renovated and cleaned up.
”All of them are working in two different classroom blocks. We have toilets in two different classroom blocks-for junior secondary and the senior secondary. Upstairs and downstairs. The water is running, the pressure is very good. It’s very satisfactory!
”I’m very happy with what I’ve seen. It will help the children to develop the right mindset. We are showing them that squatting outside in public is not the standard. Even for civilization. What we have done here today is correcting that mindset.
”And showing them that this is the standard sanitary practice. That you can have a toilet. You sit on it. Then when you’re done, you clean it up. You flush it. And the water comes out. Then you can also wash your hands in the sink.
”So, that way, when the teachers are teaching them about washing their hands in school; they’re not looking at you, lost. Like where do I wash my hands? Where is the running water to wash my hands?
”That’s the basic privilege of a child. Or a young child growing up. It should not be seen as a privilege. It’s a basic entitlement, as far as I’m concerned. So, for us as Starzs, we’re so happy that we could support the school management in this endeavor. To give them something that has sustainability attached to it. That is very important to us.
”Because with that borehole that is powered by solar, the school will always have running water. And then, we also connected their staff quarters so they can benefit from the existence of this borehole.
”So I think my in my heart… I feel a sense of fulfillment today. I must be honest. I’ve gone to a lot of other projects. But this one has impacted me the most because I know the implication of having running water, especially as a child.”
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STARZS CEO Commissions School Projects, Champions Environmental Protection and Tree -Planting to Mark 40th Anniversary.
By Izuchukwu Ozoemena
As part of elaborate celebrations marking her 40tth anniversary, Starzs Investments Company Ltd (SICL), Wednesday, embarked on a campaign for environmental sanity and sustainability, beginning with planting of trees in some schools within her areas of operation.
SICL also collaborated with the Rivers State chapter of the Nigerian Environment Society to inaugurate school clubs whose mandate is to work towards protecting the environment through planting trees and promoting overall cleanliness even beyond the immediate environment of different schools.
Schools that received waste plastic bags, trees for planting and other relevant materials from the Company to give teeth to this campaign effort included Government Boys’ Secondary School, Elelenwo and Government Community Boys’ Secondary School, Elelenwo. Others were Community Boys’ Junior Secondary School, Elelenwo, Community Girls’ Secondary School, Elelenwo, and the Government Secondary School, Onne.
Infrastructural upgrade was the major focus at Government Secondary School, Onne and the Community Secondary School, Ogu in Ogu-Bolo Local Government where SICL inaugurated rehabilitated classrooms fitted with new chairs, tables, whiteboards, etc. The Company commissioned a giant solar-powered borehole at Ogu- Bolo alongside a befitting male and female school toilets for use by students.
The General Secretary of the Rivers State chapter of the NES Dr Olowu Emmanuel, delivered a talk on the importance of a good environment followed by an exhortation by the Principal, Dr Alfred Wosa.
The event recorded an impressive excitement from the students and teachers who saw it as a new beginning in a committed effort to uplift the environmental and infrastructural standard of the schools involved by the Starzs Investments Company Ltd.
Frank Loveday, a chieftain of the Rivers State chapter of the Nigerian Environmental Society also inaugurated the Students’ Environmental Club of the schools.
He said: “I hereby inaugurate the Environmental Club of these schools, Government Boys’ Secondary School, Elelenwo, Government Community Boys’ Secondary School, Elelenwo, Community Boys’ Secondary School (Junior), Elelenwo, and Community Girls’ Secondary School, Elelenwo”.
By way of motivation, cash prizes were given to some students among which were DaGogo Destiny and Christopher Godwin. Others were Umor Samuel and Philip John.
Frank Loveday charged the students to see themselves as leaders of tomorrow who must show exceptional interest in protecting the environment.
”If I say ‘NES’, your response is: Act, Think, Sustainable Environment!'” he tasked them and the response was spontaneous.
He thanked the STARZS Group, an indigenous company fully and sincerely impacting the nation’s waters, for moving upland, to protect even the land, explaining that if the land environment is not protected and sustained, there could be dire consequences.
He described the Nigerian Environmental Society as a non-profit-making organization, comprising pure-minded professionals who, over the years, have taken time to develop themselves on environmental issues.
”As you know, the environment is our mainstay; it is our home. Everything we’re going to be doing, and we have been doing, and we’ll be doing, is actually packaged on this bed as the envelope that is housing us. And it is our core responsibility not only to be a watchdog, but to be participatory professionals by way of contributing our part and our quota in activities and actions that will help, not only to sustain, but also to manage the environment.
”It is on the premise of that, that we are here today to do this programme. And we are doing it in conjunction with the STARZS Investment Company and Marine. This is an indigenous group that has, since 1986 or thereabouts, been on marine activities.
”They have shown distinction, and I must emphasize distinction, in the way their activities have been carried.” Others should emulate the company, he counselled.
Speaking on the need to maintain a safe environment, Mr Adeyi Adeniyi, Starzs Deputy Managing Director, assured that the Company would continue to support and promote environmental protection and sustainability.
Recalling the old image of Port Harcourt as a garden city, he explained that aside protecting man from the harshness of the sun, houses against the winds, trees also provide oxygen while filtering away carbon dioxide.
”There is something we do, as an organization. Basically, we go for trees that are medicinal, or of medicinal value; and of trees that are of economic value.
”However, please note too, that the essence of our strategy is to ensure that while we are providing the economic value, we are also providing oxygen, we are protecting the environment, and we are also beautifying the environment.
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Starzs’ 40th Anniversary : Group’s CSR Will Rewrite Our Story, Benefitting Communities Say.
By Izuchukwu Ozoemena
As Starzs Investments Company Ltd revels in her 40th anniversary celebration, her
host communities in Rivers State remain upbeat, pouring encomium on the establishment and her enduring corporate social responsibility. They express commitment to nurture the Company’s goodwill which stands to positively rewrite the story of their people.
These communities include Eleme, Onne, Rumuadolor, maritime training institutions,etc.
Mr. Bright Ngolo, the Onne CDC Secretary who represented the CDC Chairman and Andrew Jiala the Crown Prince of Onne community representing the Royal Palace and the community, applauded SICL’s good intentions, stressing that it would surely put smiles on the faces of both the direct beneficiaries and the entire Community.
”If there is anything that makes me happy, it’s to see the smiles on the faces of my people. When you see their smiles, you also, as a community, will be happy. So, anything that makes them happy also makes me happy.
”I want to say Onne is one of your host communities and a very peaceful host community. I believe that you enjoy a very cordial relationship with Onne as one of your hosts. And I assure you that what you are doing today, we are very excited about it.”
”I don’t know the numbers of persons that will be empowered today. But I want to assure you that your relationship with Onne will still continue to cordial.
”We are very grateful for honoring our youths by giving them skills. Because if there is anything any youth needs, it’s the skills. You can’t go in life without a special skill.
”So, we are very honored. Thank you and God bless you.”
In the same vein, Elvis Aguma, the Youths President of the Rumuadolu Community thanked the STARZS management for their past and present community programme.
”We are pleased and honored for this program that you organized today. It is a state-of-the-art program. And over the years, that you have had investments in Rumuadolu, it has been a very good cordial relationship between us. And with this that you are currently doing, we are also going to reciprocate further.
For the Ogu Community, the STARZS Group has actually been a huge economic blessing. Chief Fidelis Opouye who put this in words while speaking for Chief Taripaka Gbobbo Amos consequently commended the company.
”We have come to see that this establishment started with good footing. You have been very cordial, very fair to all the youths who have been here. Sometimes ago, not in this hall, somewhere else, they were invited. I was also there. And I made a speech last year.
”So, we, as a community, when we see progress, when we see people reaching out to meet our needs, we encourage them. We build the platform for them to operate. And we don’t want to stop their operations”, he said, stressing that skills acquisition will change their lives permanently.
”We will continue to be careful and cordial. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you!” he stressed!
Aside from the community leaders and the management staff of the STARZS Group, Nnamdi Amadi, the Charkins Registrar and Thlawur Dunya – Coordinator Academic Affairs representing the Rector, were also present.
Speaking in the same vein, Elvis Aguma, the Youths President of the Rumuadolu Community thanked the STARZS management for their past and present community programme.
”We are pleased and honored for this program that you organized today. It is a state-of-the-art program. And over the years, that you have had investments in Rumuadolu, it has been a very good cordial relationship between us. And with this that you are currently doing, we are also going to reciprocate further.
For the Ogu Community, the STARZS Group has actually been a huge economic blessing. Chief Fidelis Opouye who put this in words while speaking for Chief Taripaka Gbobbo Amos consequently commended the company.
”We have come to see that this establishment started with good footing. You have been very cordial, very fair to all the youths who have been here. Sometimes ago, not in this hall, somewhere else, they were invited. I was also there. And I made a speech last year.
”So, we, as a community, when we see progress, when we see people reaching out to meet our needs, we encourage them. We build the platform for them to operate. And we don’t want to stop their operations”, he said, stressing that skills acquisition will change their lives permanently.
”We will continue to be careful and cordial. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you!” he stressed!
Aside from the community leaders and the management staff of the STARZS Group, Nnamdi Amadi, the Charkins Registrar and Thlawur Dunya – Cordinator Academic Affairs representing the Rector, were also present.
In the meantime, the Managing Director of the Diopter Technology, a key partner in the training scheme, Emmanuel Ugwumba has emphasized that the present course of action will bring light to the families of the beneficiaries.
Recalling the experience from his village, he also highlighted that anybody with a good training record will want to recreate such value to other individuals .
”When STARS came up with this, I just understood the culture of the company. The culture, reflects a lot from their core values. They also have respect for good results”, he said, tasking the beneficiaries to genuinely appreciate the wonderful opportunities the Company was offering them.
Host Communities Pour Encomiums As STARZS Dole Out Scholarship To 40 Youths
Eleme, Rumuadolor, others acknowledge the Special Skills Acquisition programme would positively change their lives.
In his intervention, Head of Human Resources of the Starzs Group,Tari Agiobu says Monday’s celebration of special Corporate Social Responsibility is a reflection of SICL’s enduring partnership with host communities and other stakeholders including maritime institutions.
”We’re going to be equipping members of our host communities with skills that we believe will empower them and subsequently empower their communities down the line”, Tari Agiobu pledged.
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