Anambra congratulates new NIMASA Executive Director, Offodile over appointment

The Anambra State Government has congratulated Honourable Chudi Offodile on his appointment as an Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).

Honourable Offodile was on Wednesday announced the new NIMASA Executive Director in charge of Finance following the reorganization of the agency’s top management.

In a statement in Awka on Tuesday, through the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C-Don Adinuba, the State government said that Honourable Offodile is eminently deserving of the appointment.

Honourable Offodile, a lawyer, political analyst and author, represented the Awka Federal Constituency in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2005 and was simultaneously Chairman of the Sub Committee on Gas and Chairman of the Special Committee on Joint Venture Oil Operations, later headed the Committee on Public Petitions.

According to the statement, though he left the legislature fifteen years ago, his colleagues and officials of the National Assembly speak nostalgically about him on account of the brilliance, commitment and vibrancy he displayed.

It stated that having discharged his duties with aplomb, Honourable Offodile set a standard by which a lot of his colleagues are still judged in matters of transparency, probity and commitment to the common good as well as legislative delivery.

The statement said that Hon. Offodile was one of the first major investors in the State following the restoration of democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999 and encouraged many people from Anambra State to follow his bold example of “Think Home.”

It said that his impressive record made Governor Willie Obiano to appoint him last December a member of the Anambra State Vision 2070 Committee, a group drawing up a strategic plan to make the State attain the status of a fully developed entity in the next fifty years, headed by former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo.

The statement also noted that Governor Obiano has expressed the gratitude of the people and government of Anambra State for the appointment.

He said that Governor Obiano viewed that Honorable Offodile’s appointment into the leadership of NIMASA, a key parastatal, is obviously in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise during the 2019 electioneering campaign to appoint persons from Anambra State and the South-East geopolitical zone into strategic positions.

The statement also said that people of the area still expect more key appointments because all the people the president has appointed from Anambra State and the South-East geopolitical zone always display outstanding competence, integrity and loyalty.