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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here       Daily Independent Online.         * Wednesday, July 07, 2004. How to ensure maximum security in Nigerian ports, by Sarumi By Muyiwa Dare Maritime Reporter, Lagos Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Adebayo Sarumi, has disclosed the various ways the government would ensure maximum security within the Nigerian ports in line with the International Shipping and Port-facilities Security (ISPS) code. According to him, the ports would soon be divided into terminals to be fenced from each other so that those, who might have gained illegal entry at the main gate, would be at a crossroad, as the gates to the terminals would also be electronically manned. His words: “The issue of compliance is not a problem with Nigeria. The Nigerian ports are being broken into terminals to be concessioned and each terminal will be cordoned off electronically so that if you escape the main gate, you cannot have access into the terminals. We have talked to the stakeholders and henceforth, it is operation total compliance with the ISPS code. This is a situation that is giving us bad name and we don’t want to continue with it”. On cargo clearing, the NPA boss exonerated his organisation from the current delay at the gateways, as he described the process as awkward and unproductive. “Cargo clearance procedures at the ports need to be fast-forwarded and simplified. If the railways are working, we won’t have this long queue. The documentation of goods should be done before they arrive and that needs a lot of confidence and requires that Nigerians must be sincere in their goods declaration”. Similarly, the chief security officer at the Port Harcourt Port, Captain Haruna Oyekhamoh (retired) has disclosed that monitoring of all entries and exits by policemen has been the only noticeable security control measures put in place at the port gates. He explained that nobody can enter the Port Harcourt Port without a pass while all trucks that come into the port are properly screened and must carry with them authority to load before they are allowed. To check the use of explosives by port users, he said all the people, working in the port, have been issued with identity cards, adding that for now, the Port Harcourt Port relies on manual security checks and use of hand-held scanners to detect suspicious substances.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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