The Interim Management Committee of the Nigerian Maritime Academy has lamented the poor standard of the school.

The Chairman of the committee, Adebayo Sarumi, revealed this at the presentation of a new roadmap for the academy.

According to him, the agency under the Ministry of Transportation has been neglected for too long, and expressed displeasure that a Federal Government establishment could be reduced to a local government primary school.

He said there was the need to balance the poor staffing in the school, adding that the proportion of non-academic staff is 80 per cent to 20 per cent of academic staff.
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He said the situation is unacceptable, as it is not the best for the school.

According to him: “If the authorities want to assist a local community there are other ways it could be done, instead of turning a federal establishment into a local government primary school.”

He said the way the stakeholders are presently running the school was nothing short of a local government affair.

The fact-finding committee was appointed in September 2017 to run the affairs of the academy for six months.

According to the committee, a fact-finding study of the academy since its inception showed that it could not be compared with the global standard of maritime academy.