Recently, the Managing Director, National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Dr. Moghalu, has crossed over five states in four months, in search of solutions to the desire to functional and secured River ports on the bank of River Niger, from Baro, Onitsha and Oguta.
Moghalu, sworn to connect the Onitsha River Port to the 856 km coastline and Waterways, sharing littoral borders with Niger, Cameroon, Benin, Chad, and Equatorial Guinea, which will portray national maritime architecture and drive rural development through maritime fishing and tourism.
During the Visit at UMUTIE, Dr. Moghalu promised a jetty and deployment of Niwa water crafts, to aid poorly developed fish and agriculture gold mine in illah, Delta State, as well as to assist the locals, connect the various markets in Onitsha as to attract investors.
He urged everyone to keep an eye on the need to know about his agenda to breath life to NIWA and the brown water economy.