By Our Correspondent
The federal government has placed embargo on the proposed establishment of maritime university and directed money committed into the project should be refunded.
Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, headed by Senator Ahmed Sani, that:
“We are not going ahead with the university project proposed by NIMASA because we have an institution in Oron, we have Nigeria Institute of Transport Technology, Zaria, and we have the Nigerian College of Aviation in Zaria, which we could upgrade to a university status”.
Amaechi’s concern was bothered on acceptability and patronage where he wondered: “Who will attend the University? How many parents will allow their children to go to such place where it proposes to site the university? What is the aim of the university that we cannot achieve in Oron where they are requisite infrastructure.
” I don’t think we are proceeding with the university being proposed by NIMASA because it is a waste of resources, and unfortunately a lot of money had already been released for the project, hence there is no structure on ground, but just the feasibility study.
“Whoever that is holding on to the money should better return it. The Chinese company contracted, confirmed that only the feasibility study was in place, Amaechi added.
