The management of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited (OMSL) has
denied any knowledge or involvement in the physical attack on the
Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza
Bala Usman, at the National Assembly.
Usman had petitioned the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad
Lawan, alleging that she was physically attacked by hoodlums at the
premises of the National Assembly in Abuja on Tuesday.
She claimed that her attack was sponsored by the Chairman of
Messrs Ocean Maritime Solutions Limited (OMSL), Captain Wells
Okunbo, apparently over the decision of the NPA on the Secure
Anchorage issue after attending investigative hearing in the
Assembly.
She said she was only saved a bigger assault by her security
agents who took her into Senator Danjuma Goje’s office where she
waited for the hoodlums to leave.
Reacting to the allegation, Commodore Chuma Adogu (rtd) said the
allegation was false and a figment of someone’s imagination, saying
the Chairman of OMSL, Captain Wells Okunbo, who he described as a
fine gentleman who has served the nation diligently in various
capacities, could not have sponsored thugs to attack the NPA
boss.
Adogu noted that on that Tuesday, there was no sign of such
alleged attach or rented crowd in the premises of the National
Assembly to warrant such allegation, maintaining that OMSL
management came to the National Assembly just like other invited
organisations on the day of the investigation by the Joint
Committee of the Senate investigating the Secure Anchorage Area
(SAA).
He said: “On the day of the investigation at the National
Assembly, we came like other invited organisations and we never
came with any thug or rented crowd to harass anybody, much less the
Managing Director of NPA.
“The security at the premises of the National Assembly was very
tight as everybody was routinely checked and controlled while
entering, thus forestalling any rented crowd or thugs from gaining
entrance.
“We came before the panel and presented our position in the SAA
without nursing hatred against anyone.
“Let me make it clear to the Nigerian public that OMSL is a
responsible corporate organisation with a lot of Nigerians working
as its employees.
“We are mindful of this and never can we trade it away.
“I repeat, we do not have a hand nor did our chairman sponsor
any group of thugs to attack Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman.
“We see this as part of the attempts to discredit OMS and
distract attention from the main issue, which is already with the
Senate.”
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