Purported Concession of Warri Port: Stakeholders berate BPE

Investors in the Maritime Sector under the auspices of NPA Warri Port Stakeholders’ Forum have hit back at the Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE over its defense of the purported concession of NPA Warri Old Port Terminal ‘B’, insisting that neither the BPE or National Council on Privatization, NCP has the Constitutional right to undertake the concession in 2014 as a result of ICRC Act of 2005.

  According to the stakeholders, all projects handled by the BPE in 2006 in line with the Infrastructure Concession Regulation Commission, ICRC Act have been handed over to the ICRC, hence the BPE report which claimed that Terminal ‘B’ of the 24 Terminals Concessioned by it in 2006 to Associated Marine Services, AMS, due to alleged bad shape and later relocated to Terminal ‘A’ New Port, Warri, showed that the BPE only contradicted itself and implies that “Terminal ‘B’ therefore remains not allotted”.

  In a fresh petition addressed to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan titled, “Re: Illegal Concession of NPA Warri Old Port Terminal ‘B’ by BPE – A Clarification of the Issues”, the NPA Warri Port Stakeholders Forum accused officials of the NCP/BPE of resorting “to concocting lies in order to deceive unsuspecting Nigerians to facilitate their acts of impunity” aimed at patronizing their cronies and to “avoid the scrutiny of ICRC Governing Board which is made up of very eminent Nigerians of proven Integrity”.

  The petition which was signed by Messrs Emiko Oghomienor, Tommy Gbugbuda, Oritsema Olley and Jonathan Duris Orugbor wondered while the BPE which “is yet to fully privatize all the federal government assets marked for privatization” under its purview will dabble “into the functions of another agency which it has been relieved of by law”.

  The Stakeholders, who called on President Goodluck Jonathan to institute a process for the BPE, also copied the President –Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd.) among other ministries, departments and agencies.

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