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Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, has said the sum of N807 million had been earmarked for rehabilitation of the burnt portion of the agency’s building set ablaze by hoodlums during the recent EndSARS protests.
She made the disclosure, on Monday, during 2021 budget defence session the agency had with the Senate Committee on Marine Transport.
Hadiza Usman further disclosed that 27 vehicles belonging to NPA were set ablaze by the vandals and three outrightly stolen.
She said: “These vehicles being operational ones, need to be replaced as soon as insurance companies come up with the aspect of losses to be shouldered.
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#EndSARS: NPA incurs over a billion Naira loss, Hadiza Bala Usman tells Senate
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By Henry Umoru
THE Senate was told yesterday that the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, incurred more than a billion Naira loss to vandalism during the recently ended #EndSARS protests in the country when some angry youths called for the disbarment of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad.
Speaking yesterday in Abuja when she appeared before Senator Danjuma Goje, All Progressives Congress, APC, Gombe Central led Senate Committee on Marine Transport to defend the 2021 budget, the Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman said that the sum of N807million had been earmarked for rehabilitation of the burnt portion of the agency’s building.