Oritsegbubemi Omatseyin
Lagos — The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, and the United Kingdom based Oil Spill Response Limited, OSRL, have expressed keen commitment towards enlarging the coast of their cooperation and collaboration in oil spill management in Nigeria.
This declaration was made when a team from OSRL paid a courtesy visit to the Director-General/ Chief Executive (DG/CE) of NOSDRA, Engr. Chukwuemeka Woke, in his office in Abuja.
While expressing congratulatory message to the DG/CE on his appointment, the leader of the team from OSRL, Mbami Mark Manzo, Technical, Training Development Advisor, and Manager, said having been collaborating with NOSDRA for years as one of the key regulators in Nigeria’s critical petroleum industry, the purpose of their visit was to promote continuous engagement with the agency.
Manzo assured Engr. Woke that their organisation was looking forward to deepening the working relationship with NOSDRA by exploring major areas of need, training and technical support, apart from knowledge-sharing, for their mutual benefits.
He disclosed that as part of their present visit to the country, his team had conducted a technical forum in Lagos, Port Harcourt and subsequently Abuja, with five of the staff of the agency being the beneficiaries of their Oil Spill Awareness Training conducted in Port Harcourt.
In his address, the DG/CE on behalf of the Management, welcomed the OSRL team to NOSDRA and expressed his appreciation for their congratulatory message on his appointment.
While acknowledging the existing cordial relationship between NOSDRA and OSRL, Engr. Woke stated that his appointment was a new assignment with a new management team that will align with his desirable change mantra that will translate into how the agency would do business in oil spill management for the benefit of the country’s environment and the whole universe.
He thanked the team from OSRL for training five staff of NOSDRA in their awareness capacity programme in Port Harcourt and looked forward to a more robust relationship between the two organisations.
