The last has not been heard about the internal rumblings in Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, as the latest of the crisis is most likely to consume the Acting Director General (DG), Mr. Haruna Baba Jauro.

Mr Jauro who recently embarked on a media tour to position himself for the substantive position, professing President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti corruption mantra, even though he is a PPD card carrying member, has employed his biological Daughter Mrs Cynthia James (nee Jauro) and her husband Mr. James in one swoop, much to the angst of NIMASA staff.

According to Maritime Management Series (MMS) Weekly magazine, Mr. jauro after employing his daughter and son-in-law, posted them to Port Harcourt and two months after “un-procedurally transferred both of them to the Abuja office of NIMASA”. Further investigations revealed that full allowances were paid out to them, thereby generating ripples amongst the generality of staff.

Following their employment, on Grade Level 13 and 12 respectively, far above their qualifications, they were sent to Port Harcourt where they eventually got transferred to Abuja last week, and in the process, were paid N2,500,000 and N2,350,000, a total sum of N4,850,000 (four million, eight hundred and fifty thousand only), while other staff have been denied transfers.

Nonetheless, NIMASA staff are agitated as they are presently being owed salaries for the months of August and September, with no hope in sight for payment; while Mr. Jauro is busy lobbying the media and junketing on media tours and courtesy calls to prominent Nigerians and publicizing same in a bid to be named the substantive DG of NIMASA.

Meanwhile, maritime industry watchers are curious at the prompt payment of allowances to Mr. Jauro’s daughter and son-in-law, following the cash crunch in NIMASA