The President of Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria (CIOTA), Dr Bashir Jamoh, has said, “The Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria holds its first national summit slated for December 2nd 2019 in Abuja”. He disclosed this information in an exclusive chat with GLOBAL RAYS Media in Lagos.
He asserted, “The Institute in line with extant laws as enshrined in the ACT have already developed a blueprint aimed to achieve a holistic and all inclusive national transport summit capable to reposition, re-engineer and boost investments and patronage in the transport sector with its multiplier effects on improved socio-economic development of the Nigerian economy.”
Adding, “All practitioners and stakeholders in the transport sectors in Nigeria and abroad will be invited to the summit to look at the enormous challenges militating against the smooth development of the Nigerian transport sector with a view to finding lasting solutions.”
“We will also develop a blueprint on how and efficient ways the inter-modal transport system can be effectively and efficiently utilized in accordance with standards and best practices.”
He continued, “At the end of the forthcoming summit, CIOTA intends to issue a communiqué and bring to the notice of government the effective and efficient ways of implementation.”
The institute is endowed with team of intellectuals, ably and capable to drive the efforts and objectives aimed to achieve results in compliance with the law governing the institute.
Reactive on the issue of near non implementation of recommendations on summit, Dr. Bashir, stated, “Most of the members of this institute are representatives of various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) of government and I assure you as they are part of the workable plan personnel involved at the outcome of the recommendations from the summit are oblige and duty bound to ensure that adequate compliance and implementation of the agreed recommendations are achieved in their area of the transport sectors.”
He reaffirmed, “Remember we have the land transport, the rail transport, the sea transport and the Air transport so all these areas will be adequately and professionally taken care of aimed to achieve a reliable and virile transport system.”
In addition, Jamoh submitted that, “We are going to inaugurate a monitoring committee as a mechanism aimed to monitor and ascertain compliance on implementations and feedback reports on assessments and evaluation in various areas of the transport sector to ensure all laudable ideas and policies chunked out at the summit are sequential implemented and achieved for the overall interest and development of Nigerian economy.”
“As a professional body we won’t talk without action and all hands are on deck as our team of professors is working out plans aimed to achieve CIOTA aims and objective at the forth coming national summit.”
