The Nigerian Importers Integrity Association (NIIA) has scored the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman low in her first year in office. The Group said in a release on Wednesday that no meaningful progress was recorded at the ports during Bala Usman’s first year in office, stating that Nigerian Ports Authority “never had it this bad”.

“The roads are as bad as ever, port congestion is building because trucks cannot get into the port, rickety trucks still ply our ports, nothing has changed at the port, but most importantly, there has not been any investment at the port since she was appointed into that office because investors are being scared away by her utterances,” NIIA President, Mr. Godwin Onyekazi, stated in the press release. He said Bala Usman’s “inexperience and reckless utterances” have denied the ports of much-needed investments, even as cargo volumes have continued to dwindle, leading to loss of jobs in the past one year.